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The Law and the Gospel 

or 

Gods in Chains 




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The 

LAW AND THE GOSPEL 

OR 

GODS IN CHAINS 



BY 

ANSTISS CURTISS GARY 

AUTHOR OF 

One Question A Year's Singing 

The Danger Signal 

The Unforgotten 



BRETHREN PUBLISHING HOUSE 

ELGIN. ILLINOIS 

1917 



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Copyright, 1917 
By William S. Gary 



All Rights Reserved 



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A book for all within whose hearts the awaken- 
ing Christ makes stir. 

A book for the Christian, the mystic, the church- 
man, the man without church or creed. 

A book for those who realize their kinship with 
the Eternal. 

A book for those who, heavy laden, have not yet 
heard love's message to the human. 

Within the pages of this book the Spirit that 
makes to live is wrought from the letter of the 
Scripture of the older day with wonderful and vivi- 
fying power. 

It should be in the hands of every man who seeks 
life's answer. 



THE AWAKENING OF THE SOUL IN- 
SPIRED BY 
OUR BROTHER THE HUMAN, 
THE CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, 
OUR KINSMAN THE EVERLASTING, 
THE MANIFESTING GOD. 

As one passing through the glades of a forest 
sees, through near or far vistas, light shining — so 
these poems and verses are expressions of percep- 
tion, at different times and places, during life's 
progress. 

They are not the Truth, but what the mortal per- 
ceives of Truth at various outlooks of the journey. 



GODS IN CHAINS 

1 Gods in chains, 

2 Heirs of the Most High, 

3 Yet Hke Princes doomed to fall, 
^ Like men die. 

5 Gods in chains, 

^ Here through death to live, 

"^ Here our life to crucify, 

^ Gain and give. 

^ Gods in chains 
^^ There to gain reward — 

11 Through the stripes wherewith men mark 

12 Christ our Lord? 

1^ Gods in chains, 

1^ Laboring to break 

1^ Shackles from a groaning world 

1^ For Love's sake. 



Line 1. I have said. Ye are gods; and all of you are children of 
the most High. But ye 'shall die like men, and fall like 
one of the princes. — Psa. 82 : 6, 7. 

Line 7. Then said Jesus unto his disciples. If any man will come 
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, 
and follow me.— Matt. 16: 24; Matt. 10: 38; Luke 9: 23; 
Luke 14: 27. 

Line 8. He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth 
his life for my sake shall find it— Matt. 10: 39; Matt. 
16: 25. 

Line 10. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth 
his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. — 
John 12: 25. 



Who Do Men Say That I Am? 



THE FLEETING 

When I was with you, thus thought I. 
But what Thought is, then I knew not, 
Now that I know I may not tell you, 
Till, where I am there ye may be also. 



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THE SOJOURNER 



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We have heard out of the Law 

That Christ abideth forever. 

But who is the Son of man ? 

And what is the " Hght " He brings? 

What is the power of His Word, 

Truth from illusion to sever, 

And His " kingdom " whereunto is brought 

The glory and honor of Kings. 

Who is the Son of Man, 

To be lifted up from earth's sinning? 

What is the form that He wears? 

How may we know and adore? 

What is the glorious hour, 

Told from the Nation's beginning. 

Drawing all men by its power 

God to His own to restore? 



Line 1. The people answered him, " We have heard ont of the 

law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, 

The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son 

of man?"— John 12: 34. 
Line 4. As long as I am in the world. I am the light of the 

world.— John 9:5; John 12: 35, 36. 
Line 5. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 

God, and the Word was God. — John 1: 1. 
Line 6. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness 

comprehended it not. — John 1 : 5. 
Line 7. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath 

appointed unto me.— Luke 22: 29; Matt. 6: 10, 33. 
Line S. And the nation's of them which are saved shall walk 

in the light of it; and the kings of the earth do bring 

their glory and honour into it. — Rev. 21: 24. 
Line 9. What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up 

where he was before? — John 6: 62. 
Line 12. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be 

accounted worthy to escape all these things that 'shall 

come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. — Luke 

21: 36. 
Line 13. And Jesus answered them, saying. The hour is come, that 

the Son of man should be glorified. — John 12: 23. 
Line 15. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all 

men unto me.-John 12: 32; John 16: 28; John 17: 3. 



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1'^ We cannot tell what He saith, 

1^ Walking beside us, our Brother, 

1^ Through the World's tumult and stress, 

2<^ Healing our griefs with His smile. 

21 " Though the world see Me no more 

22 Yet ye shall see and no other," 

23 Who the eternal attain, 

24 Serving My love's " little while." 



Line 17. They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little 
while? We cannot tell what he saith. — John 16: 18. 

Line 21. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but 
ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. — John 14: 19. 



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RELATEDNESS 

^ Lo, twice a thousand years ago the cry 

^ Was uttered, 

^ That told some other felt within his soul 

* The difference that held him from the whole. 

^ " O gracious Lord, 

6 I thank Thee, 

'^ Not as other men am I ! " 

^ Lo, myriad souls to God have made their 
prayer — 

^ And spurned their kind — 

^^ Without the lastingness of that far cry 

^1 Of surety, " Not as other men am I ! " 

^2 Eternal Lord, 

1^ Discerner, 

^^ Unit and multitude Thy conscious care! 

1^ The myriad souls have passed earth's gateway 

through 
^^ And died unknown, 
1'^ Without the surety of the Pharisee, 
1^ Unlike his fellows in Life's mystery — 
19 O Lord of all, 
^^ The centuries, 
^1 Since lived on earth that other One who 

knew ! 



Line 7. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, 
I thank thee, that I am not as other men are. — Luke 18: 
11. 

Line 8. Two men went up into the temple to pray ; the one a 
Pharisee and the other a publican. — Luke 18: 10, 9. 

Line 15. A great multitude, which no man could number, of all 
nations, and kindreds, and people and tongues. — Rev. 7: 
9. 

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Scenes from the Life of the Master 



THE HUMAN 

^ About My Father's business, I 
2 No more have time to play. 

^ The caravan has journeyed on 
^ Within the desert way. 

5 Who is My Father? Where is He? 
^ I am but hindered here, 

'^ My comrades seek Me anxiously, 
^ Yet n^st I feel no fear. 

^ For there are deeds that I must do, 
^^ And words I must avow. 

11 I only life and death can solve, 

12 My Father, where art Thou? 

1^ (Amid the temple walls I dwell, 
1^ Or in the deserts free — 

1° Unknown to all save whom I call, 
1^ Thou canst not part from Me.) 

1'^ I nothing of Myself can do, 
1^ Yet must I show to men 

1^ The answer to all human need 
2*^ That shall be or has been. 

21 I must not faint, or all men fail 

22 To grasp Thy love's decree: 

23 O hide from Me the journey's end, 

24 My Father, comfort Me! 



Line 1. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to 

Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. — Luke 2: 42, 49. 

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? 

wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? 
Line 17. Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the 

Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he. and that 

I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught 

me, I speak these things. — .John 8: 28. 
Line 23. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, 

save me from this hour; but for this cause came I unto 

this hour. — John 12: 27. 

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The Bringing of the Gospel 



THE CALLING 

From that time Jesus bpffan to prearh, and to say, Repent; 
for the klngfdom of heaven is at hand. — IMatt. 4: 17. 

And Je.sus went aliout all Galilee, teaching in their syna- 
gogues, and healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of 
disease among the people. — Matt. 4: 23. 

1 Come unto Me. I stand at the heart's portal 

^ And knock amid earth's din. 

^ I am so close, so near, O weary mortal, 

* Love waits to enter in. 

^ All ye that heavy laden strain and labor 

^ And 'neath your burdens fall 

'' Come unto Me, and bring your friend, your 

neighbor, 
^ For Love includeth all. 

^ I offer — but your soul it is that chooseth. 
1" What profiteth earth's best 

^^ To him who at the last his travail loseth? 
^2 Come unto Me, and rest. 

1^ Come unto Me — before the earth was fash- 
ioned, 



Line 1. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear 
my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and 
will sup with him, and he with me. — Rev. 3: 20. 

Line 4. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be 
saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. — John 
10: 9. 

Line 5. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest. — Matt. 11: 28. 

Line 7. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; 
Thou Shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. — Gal. 5: 14. 

Line 10. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole 
world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give 
in exchange for his soul? — Matt. 16: 26. 

Line 13. Jesus said unto them. Verily, verily, I say unto you. 
Before Abraham was I am. 

Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that 
can deliver out of my hand : I will work and who shall 
let it?— John 8: 58; Isa. 43: 13. 

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1* Before the deep was bound, 

^5 Out of the void, my yearning need impas- 
sioned 
16 Man's answering spirit found. 

1'^ And evermore Love's echoing call resound- 

eth, 
1^ Where'er earth's tumult rolls, 

19 Come unto Me, and find, where peace abound- 

eth, 
My rest unto your souls. 

21 For, evermore. Love asketh but the turning 

22 Earth's weariness therefrom. 

23 At the heart's door I stand. Heed ye My 

yearning, 

24 O heavy laden. Come ! 



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Line 14. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, 
be with me where I am ; that they may behold my glory, 
which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before 
the foundation of the world. — John 17: 24; John 17: 5. 

Line 19. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : not 
as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart 
be troubled, neither let it be afraid. — John 14: 27. 

Line 20. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek 
and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your 
souls.— Matt. 11: 29. 



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ABILITY 

1 In man there is no greatness — 

2 Only the power to see, 

•^ Where once amid earth's sordid throng 

* A great soul moved, 'mid hate and wrong 

5 With majesty. 

^ In man there is no greatness — 

'^ Only the power to hear 

'^ The echo of a wondrous voice, 

^ That bade the sorrowing rejoice, 

10 And silenced fear. 

11 In man there is no greatness. 

12 Help us, O Christ, alway ; 

1^ Help us to plead upon our knees, 

1* To be accounted " One of these," 

15 When Thou dost pray! 



Line 2. And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, 
Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.— 
Matt. 13: 16; Mark 8: 18. 

Line 4. Let these sayings sink down into your ears : for the Son 
of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. — Luke 
9: 44. 

Line 5. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Gal- 
ilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the re- 
gion round about. — Luke 4: 14; Luke 8: 1; Luke 23: 2, 
38. 

Line 8. .Tesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him 
come unto me and drink. — John 7: 37, 46; Mark 8: 21. 

Line 9. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest. — Matt. 11 : 28. 

Line 10. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been 
here, mv brother had not died. — John 11: 21, 23; John 
8: 10, 11. 

Line 14. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of 
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. — Matt. 25: 
40. 

Line 15. I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for them 
which thou hast given me; for they are thine. — John 17: 
9, 20. 

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16 In us there is no greatness, 
1'^ Save bearing of a yoke 

18 Laid by Love's hands on high and low, 

19 Save power and cognizance to know 

20 What Greatness spoke. 

21 In man there is no greatness, 

22 Save power to translate — 

23 As in the past, Love's struggle still 

24 Within the soul God to fulfill— 

25 Thus were men great. 



Line 17. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am 

meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto 

your souls. — Matt. 11 : 29. 
Line 18. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. — Matt. 11 : 

30. 
Line 20. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou 

gavest me — 

For I have given them the words which thou gavest me. 

—John 17: 6, 7, 8, 14, 26. 



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The Gathering of the Multitudes 

and 

The Relatives' DisbeUef 



THE VISIBLE 

And when his friends heard of it they went out to lay hold on 

him: for they said, "He is beside himself."— Mark 3: 21. 
For neither did his brethren believe in him. — John 7: 5. 

They said: "He is beside Himself." 

2 Both friends and kindred stood 

^ Aloof fi-om all His purposes, 

* He thought in solitude. 

^ Their words held truth they wot not of, 

^ The Man of Galilee, 

" The Carpenter of Nazareth 

^ Was all their eyes could see. 

^ That which " beside " Him made His words, 

10 His touch, prove God to men, 

11 His spirit's majesty and power 

12 Was past their human ken. 

1^ Among the multitudes that thronged 

1"* And would not be denied, 

1^ Beside Himself the Master walked — 

1^ Alone, unknown, " Beside." 

1" Was there no one to render back 

1'*^ A tithe, one little part 

1^ Of all the yearning of Love's need 

20 That filled His human heart? 

"1 Never man spake Love's truth as He, 

22 Never man did Love's will — 



Line 13. Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I 
have compassion on the multitude because they continue 
with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and 
I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint by 
the way.— Matt. 15: 32; Mark 5: 31; Luke 12: 1. 

Line 21. The ofiicers answered, Never man spake like this man. 
—John 7: 46. 

Line 22. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good 
will toward men. — Luke 2: 14; John 1: 13; John 4: 34; 
John 5: 30. 

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23 Throughout the centuries we feel 

2^* This love our pulses thrill. 

25 He is beside Himself — and me. 

26 His presence fills the space 

2'^ That I must pass, alone, unknown, 

2S To reach His dwelling place. 

29 If years elapse before I stand 

3^ Beside Him, or if I 

31 Before tomorrow's sun shall set, 

32 My brother's face descry — ■ 

33 What matters it? I may not step 

34 Beyond His footprint's " Way." 

35 What matters it, with home in sight, 
35 Tomorrow or today? 

3"^ Beside the self, laid gladly down, 

38 Beside unheeding men, 

39 Stands, as of old, the Christ of God, 
^^ And offers Love a2:ain. 



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A SIMPLE TALE 

^ A simple tale, and of a lowly Man — 
^ A tale of power spent upon common folk, 

^ The great power Love that, ere the world be- 
gan, 
* When, 'mid creation's throes, the Thinker 

spoke : 
^ " Let there be light " and light and love there 

were. 
" "I came into the world and for this cause." 

" A Wanderer 'mid desert rocks and hills, 
'^ A Solitary, claiming nothing good, 

^ Save pity for the human and life's ills, 
^® Save understanding of God's Fatherhood, 



Line 1. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am 
meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto 
your souls.— Matt. 11: 29; Zech. 9: 9; Phil. 2: 7, 8. 

Line 2. And the common people heard him gladly. — Mark 12: 37. 

Line 3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the Word was God. The same was in the be- 
ginning with God. — John 1 : 1, 2. 

Line 5. And God said. Let there be light ; and there was light. — 
Gen. 1: 3; John 1: 4. 

Line 6. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that 
oometh into the world. — John 1: 9, 10; John 8: 23; John 
9: 39; John 9: 9, 10. 

Line 7. And it came to pass, that as they went in the way, a 
certain man said unto him. Lord, I will follow thee 
whithersoever thou goest. — Luke 9: 57, 58; Luke 9: 10; 
Mark 6: 31; John 6: 15. 

Line 8. And Jesus said unto him. Why callest thou me good? 
None is good, save one, that is God. — Luke 18: 19; Matt. 
19; 16, 17; John 8: 28; John 5: 30. 

Line 9. And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was 
moved with compassion toward them, because they were 
as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach 
them many things.— Mark 6 : 34 ; Matt. 9: 36; Matt. 23: 37. 

Line 10. And call no man your father upon the earth ; for one 
is your Father which is in heaven. — Matt. 23: 9; John 
10: 15; John 1: 14; John 14: 6; John 20: 17; Matt. 12: 
50; Matt. 7: 21; Luke 12: 30. 

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11 A Faster that the multitude be filled, 

12 " Beelzebub " they said, their hunger stilled. 

1^ Unto the lowly Man the people thronged — 

1* The common people — and made earnest cry 

1^ For succor from life's misery and wrong: 

1^ "Oh, help us, Jesus; help us ere we die"; 

1'^ " Behold my withered hand " ; " Make way, 

make way; 

1^ My only son I bring the grave today." 

1^ " I cannot rise to reverence You this day." 
^^ " From birth, sight was withholden. Lord 

from me." 

21 "O David's Son, we beg on earth's highway 

22 Have mercy on us that our eyes may see! " 

23 The thronging multitudes each pathway 

claim — 

24 " o Master, Master, pause in pity's name! " 



Line 11. Jesus answered them and said. Verily, verily, I say 
unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, 
but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled. — 
John 6: 26; Matt. 4: 2"); Matt. 17: 21; Matt. 4: 2. 

Line 12. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, 
how much more shall they call them of his household? — 
Matt. 10: 25; Luke 11: 15; John 8: 48. 

Line 13. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their syn- 
agogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and 
healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease 
among the people.— Matt. 4: 23, 24; Matt. 11: 28; Mark 
12: 37. 

Line 16. The father of the child cried out, and said with tears, 
Lord I believe; help thou my unbelief. — Mark 9: 24; 
Matt. 15: 25; Heb. 4: 16. 

Line 18. Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold 
there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his 
mother, and she was a widow; and much people of the 
city was with her. — Luke 7: 12; Matt. 12: 10. 

Line 19. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk. — 
John 5: 8. 

Line 20. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind 
from his birth.— John 9: 1, 8. 

Line 21. And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed 
him crying and saying. Thou son of David have mercy 
on us.— Matt. 9: 27. 

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25 " Lord, for my son, who stumbleth to his 

harm, 

26 Whom fire and water vex, whom none can 

cure, 
2'^ Rebuke the evil through Thy pity's charm, 

28 Cast out the fear we can no more endure." 

29 On every side arose the call for aid, 

^* Oh Christ of God, who grew but once afraid! 

21 The lepers' unclean flesh his touch made 

whole, 
32 The soul-stained woman — bade no more to 

sin. 
The children, who from watchful mothers 
stole, 
3^ The circle of his sufferance to win. 

Asking they came, demanding of Love's 

power, 
Yet there was none to " Watch," with Him, 
one hour. 



Line 25. Ma.ster I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a 

dumb spirit. — Mark 9: 17. 
Line 27. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the 

child, and delivered him again to his father. — Luke 9: 

42; Matt. 17: 18. 
Line 30. Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, 

save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto 

this hour.— John 12: 27; Matt. 26: 36, 39. 
Line 31. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying 

I will ; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy 

was cleansed. — Matt. 8: 3. 
Line 32. Jesus said unto her. Neither do I condemn thee; go, and 

sin no more. — John 8: 11. 
Line .34. Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, 

to come unto me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven. — 

Matt. 19: 14. 
Line 35. They 'sent out into all that country round about, and 

brought unto him all that were diseased — and as many 

as touched him were made perfectly whole. — Matt. 14: 

3.5, 36; Matt. 14: 28. 29. 
Line 36. Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when 

the time is. And what I say unto you I say unto all. 

Watch.— Mark 13: 33, 37; Mark 14: 34, 37; Matt. 26: 40, 

41. 

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"^ A simple tale and of a lowly Man — 

^^ Who had not where on earth to lay His 

head — 
^^ Who honored Love above earth's kingdomed 

plan, 
*^ And for Love's sake was slain, dishonored ; 

^1 Who from the pit's mouth rose and went away 
*2 From earth's ingratitude on the third day. 



Line 38. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the 
birds of the air have nests : but the Son of man hath 
not where to lay his head. — Matt. 8: 20. 

Line 39. Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high 
mountain, and sheweth him all the Ijingdoms of the 
World, and the glory of them.— Matt. 4:8; John 18: 36. 

Ivine 40. And he said unto them. With desire I have desired to 
eat this passover with you before I suffer. — Luke 22: 15; 
Matt. 26: 2, 31; John 19: 1, 2, 3; Luke 23: 33; Matt. 27: 
39. 

Line 41. This man went unto Pilate and begged the body of 
Jesus. And he laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn 
in stone, vv'herein never man before was laid. — Luke 23: 
52, 53; Matt. 27: 60. 

Line 42. Thus it is written and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, 
and to rise from the dead the third day. — Luke 24: 46, 
John 20: 25; Mark 16: 19. 



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With the Disciples 



THE NEW COMMANDMENT 

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one an- 
other, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — John 
13: 34. 

New indeed to our ears is this commandment, 

Lo, we can love and do, 
After earth's fashion, bitterly or truly. 

But not, O Lord, as You. 

Strange to us sounds this law, O Mighty Teacher, 

And hard its simple plan ! 
Our love like Yours? You give your Self to showing 

Love's mystery to man. 



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TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH 

1 Unto him that overcometh 

2 Will I give, what only I, 

3 On God's earth or in His heaven 

4 Can as Son of Man supply; 
^ The glory of the sunlight 

^ And Morning Star therefrom. 

'^ No more they walk in darkness 
^ Who the mortal overcome. 

9 To him that overcometh 

10 Will I give the name that ne'er 

11 Until such consummation 

12 Shall be written anywhere ; 

1^ Though he search he shall not find it; 

14 Though he ask he may not know. 

15 jj-jg redeeming of My promise 

1^ He that overcomes shall show. 

1'^ Of the tree of life upspringing 
IS From the midst of paradise, 

19 Will I give to eat, whatever 

20 Him who conquers shall suffice. 

21 Of the manna which is hidden, 

22 Of the fountain's waters sweet, 

Line 4. But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power 

on earth to for^ve sins (he saith to the sick of the 

palsy,)— Mark 2: 10, 11. 
Line 6. And I will give him the morning star.— Rev. 2 : 28. 
Line 7. To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the 

shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of peace. 

—Luke 1: 79. 
Line 10. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 

manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the 

stone a new name written, which no man knoweth 

saving he that receiveth it. — Rev. 2: 17. 
Line 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree 

of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. — 

Rev. 2: 7. 
Line 22. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood 

and cried, saying. If any man thirst let him come unto 

me and drink. — John 7: 37. 

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Lo, the one that overcometh, 



24 He shall drink and he shall eat. 

25 And of him that overcometh 

26 Will I make a pillar strong 
2'^ In the temple of his body, 

28 To my God shall he belong. 

29 Till the nations are subdued, 

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His the power and God's the praise, 



31 And his name shall not be blotted 

32 From life's endless book of days. 

33 Clothed in white and spotless raiment, 

34 Freed from death and pure from sin, 

35 Shall the one that overcometh 

36 To My kingdom enter in. 

3*^ Even as I came and conquered, 

38 On My throne, and by My side, 

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Lifted up from sense of evil 
4<> Shall the conqueror abide. 



Line 26. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple 
of my God, and he shall go no more out; and I will 
write' upon him the name of my God — and I will write 
upon him my new name. — Rev. 3: 12. 

Line 29. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto 
the end, to him will I give power over the nations. — 
Rev. 2: 26. 

Line 31. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white 
raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the 
book of life, but I will confess his name before my 
Father, and before his angels. — Rev. 3: 5. 

Line 34. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit 
saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not 
be hurt of the second death.— Rev. 2: 11; Rev. 3: 5. 

Line 38. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me 
in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down 
with my Father in his throne. — Rev. 3: 21. 

Line 39. Then said Jesus unto them. When ye have lifted up 
the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he. — John 
8: 28. 

Line 40. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men 
unto me. — John 12: 32. 



COMPANIONSHIP 

" Though all the world forsake," he said, " I 
will not." 

The Master said : " Not so, 
Alone I drink the cup, the dregs I spill not. 

No other soul may know." 

"If thou wouldest follow, learn; if know, 
shrink never 

The solitary way. 
Thou hast example in My soul, that ever 

Bears isolation's sway." 



Line 1. Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall 

be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. 

—Matt. 26: 33; Luke 22: 33. 
Line 3. He fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if 

it be possible let this cup pass from me. — Matt. 26: 39. 
Line 5. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go 

unto the Father; for my Father is greater than I. — John 

14: 28. 



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A MESSAGE TO HEROD 

^ The Master paused to answer; 

2 No longer mild and meek, 

2 He turned upon the messengers, 

"* Who warning words would speak 

5 Of Herod and the vengeance 

^ He on the Christ would wreak. 

■'' " Go say unto that fox," He said, 
^ "I work Love's cures today, 

^ And so upon the morrow 

10 I walk the selfsame way, 

11 The third day I am perfected — 

12 That unto Herod say." 

13 " No man takes My Hfe from Me, 
1* I lay it down for Good, 

1^ That I again may take it, 
1^ And give to whom God would. 

1'^ A greater power than Herod's 
1^ Is Mine, by men withstood. 

i» " It cannot be, O Father, 

20 For such it seems Thy will, 

21 That out of great Jerusalem 

22 Shall men Thy prophets kill. 

23 Through Thee, and not through Herod, 

24 Shall I the law fulfill." 



Line 3. The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, say- 
ing unto him. Get thee out and depart hence: for Herod 
will kill thee.— Luke 13: 31. 

Line 7. And he said unto them. Go ye and tell that fox, Behold 
I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, 
and the third day I shall be perfected. — Luke 13: 32. 

Line 9. Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the 
day following:; for it cannot be that a prophet perish 
out of Jerusalem. — Luke 13: 33. 

Line 13. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. 
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take 
it again. — John 10: 18. 

Line 16. And he said. Therefore said I unto you. that no man 
can come unto me. except it were given unto him of my 
Father.— John 6: 65. 

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NOT AS THE WORLD GIVETH 

^ The World is not the cover 
2 Made by our mother earth, 

^ Who hides when all is over 
^ Man's weakness, not his worth. 

^ The World is something vaster, 
^ That shapes to our desire ; 

'^ He who the World would master 
^ Must past its laws aspire. 

^ He who would wealth shall gain it; 
!•' He who would fame shall win ; 

^1 Who ask they shall attain it; 
^2 The lustful grasp their sin. 

^^ The World gives shapes that men see 

1* To Powers of the Air; 

1^ The Prince of it holds jubilee 

1^ O'er human hearts' despair. 

^'^ " How is it, Lord, that to us 
^^ Thou manifest shalt be? 



Line 5. Again, the devil talceth him up into an exceeding high 
mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the 
world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him. All 
these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and 
worship me. — Matt. 4: 8, 9. 

Line 9. For what shall it profit a man, if he should gain the 
whole world, and lose his own soul? — Mark 8: 36; Prov. 

23: 7. 

Line 11. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; 
knock, and it shall be opened unto you. — Matt. 7: 7. 

Line 14. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course 
of this world, according to the prince of the power of 
the air. the spirit that now worketh in the children of 
disobedience.— Eph. 2:2; Eph. 6: 12. 

Line 15. Hereafter I will not talk much with you ; for the prince 
of this world cometh and hath nothing in me. — John 14: 
30. 

Line 17. Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, 
and not unto the World?— John 14: 22. 

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1^ The World stands unemulous 

20 Nor heeds Thy Majesty." 

21 " The truth of this My Spirit 

22 The World cannot receive; 

23 The flesh cannot inherit, 
2* But ye see and believe. 

25 " Not as the World I give it, 

26 Not as the World ye take. 
2'^ Let him who can receive it 
28 And life etern' partake." 

2^ " We know not where Thou goest- 

30 How can we know the way? 

31 From mansions that Thou knowest 

32 



Our fears lead us astray." 

33 " Within you lies the portal, 
3* The mansions are within ; 



Line 22. But that the World may know that I love the Father; 

and as the Father gave me commandment, even eo I do. 

—John 14: 31. 
Line 25. Peaee I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : not 

as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart 

be troubled, neither let it be afraid. — John 14: 27. 
Line 26. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated 

them, because they are not of the world, even as I am 

not of the world.^John 17: 14. 
Line 27. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears 

are' dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; 

lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and 

hear with their ears, and should understand with their 

heart, and should be converted, and I 'should heal them. 

But blessed are your eyes for they see; and your ears 

for they hear.— Matt. 13: 1.5, 16. 
Line 28. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but 

ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also. — John 14: 19. 
Line 29. Thomas saith unto him. Lord, we know not whither thou 

goest and how can we know the way? — John 14: 5. 
Line 31. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were 

not 'so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place 

for you. — John 14: 2. 
Line 33. For behold the kingdom of God is within you. — Luke 17: 

21. 
Line 34. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and 

ye in me, and I in you. — John 14: 20. 

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^5 Only through Love immortal 
^^ Shall you the pathway win. 

2'^ "You are not body's seeming-; 
^^ This thing that men call you 

^^ Must perish with its dreaming, 
^•^ Nor pass the gateway through. 

^^ " Within you is My heaven — 
^2 Not in the body's wall ; 

^^ The working of its leaven 
** Is for the nations all. 

4^ " Have I been so long with you 
46 And yet you have not known? 

4'^ The Word how can I endue, 
4S That it shall be your own? 

49 " Who understands My message 
^^ Sees what the Father shows — 

^1 Not of ' The World ' we presage, 
52 Not to ' The World ' He goes." 



Line 35. We know that we have passed from death unto life, be- 
cause we love the brethren. He that loveth not his 
brother abideth in death. — 1 John 3: 14. 

Line 38. Now this I say brethren, that flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption in- 
lierit incorruption. — 1 Cor. 15: 50. 

Line 41. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but 
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. — 
Romans 14: 17. 

Line 45. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been 'so long time with 
you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? he that 
hath seen me hath seen the Father. — John 14: 19. 

Line 47. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be- 
gotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. — John 1: 
14. 

Line 50. Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the 
Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak 
not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he 
doeth the works. — John 14 : 10. 

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ROYALTY 

Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of 

this world cometh, and hath nothing In me. — John 14: 30. 

1 The Prince of this World cometh, 

2 Who nothing- hath in Me, 

3 With Powers of Air surrounded, 

4 With pomp and majesty. 

5 Engirt with air-flung banners, 

6 And terrible in wrath, 

' The Prince of this World cometh, 

* In Me who nothing hath. 

9 The Prince of this World cometh, 

^^ O'er men his chariots drive, 

11 On flesh and blood of women 

12 His legionaries thrive, 

13 And from his glance the children 

14 In wailing terror flee. 

15 This world's great Master cometh 

16 With blare of victory. 

1*^ The Prince of this World cometh 

18 To aid and cheer his own, 

19 The man who to his brother 



Line 3. Wherein in time past you walked according to the course 
of this world, according to the prince of the power of 
the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of 
disobedience. — Eph. 2: 2. 

Line 6. Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away 
with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver 
thee.— Job 36: 18; Prov. 11: 23; Prov. 27: 3, 4. 

Line 10. Behold he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots 
shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than 
eagles. Woe unto us, for we are spoiled. — Jer. 4: 13; 
Psa. 20: 7; Isa. 2: 7; Isa. 31: 1. 

Line 13. Jesus said. Suffer little children, and forbid them not, 
to come unto me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven. 
—Matt. 19: 14. 

Line 19. Forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded 
him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that 
he had, and payment to be made. — Matt. 18: 25. 

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2<* No tenderness hath shown, 

21 Who hears no plea for mercy 

22 From starving Hps and cold, 

22 Him shall his Prince with purple 

2* And linen fine enfold. 

25 The Prince of this World cometh, 

2^ A kingdom to assure ; 

2'^ A kingdom built and founded 

2^ Upon earth's " always poor." 

29 Far from the " Way " eternal, 

^^ Upon a wid'ning path 

31 A multitude he marshals 

32 Who for Love nothing hath. 

33 The Prince of this World cometh 

34 His cohorts to befriend, 

35 And, from his countless treasure, 

36 His pompous stewards lend 
3" Stones, that a specious learning 

38 Be housed, while men bread seek. 

39 " I will not talk much with you," 

4^ They come whose acts shall speak. 

41 The Prince of this World cometh, 

42 And his the power and praise. 



Line 23. There was a certain ricli man, whicli was clothed in pur- 
ple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. — 
Luke 16: 19; Bzkl. 27: 7. 

Line 28. For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore 
I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand 
wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, 
in thy land. — Deut. 15: 11; Mark 14: 7. 

Line 29. But when divers were hardened and believed not, but 
spake evil of that way before the multitude — 
And at the same time ther*- arose no small stir about 
that way.— Acts 19: 9, 23. 

Line 32. If ve love me keep my commandments. — John 14: 15: 
John 15: 12, 18, 19. 

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^^ The portioning of kingdoms 

■^^ The granting of the bays. 

^5 World's glory and World's honor 

^'^ His worshipers command. 

^'' The Prince of this world cometh 

*^ With largess in his hand. 

49 The Prince of this World cometh 

so As in the ancient days, 

51 The Son of Man to conquer, 

52 His soul's worth to appraise; 

53 The hunger of his spirit 

S-* For righteousness to kill — 

ss The Prince of this World cometh, 

S6 To man he cometh still. 

s" The Prince of this World cometh 

s^ To govern and command. 

S9 Marked are his leal adherents 

^•^ On forehead and in hand, 

^^ Lest any find and slay them 

^2 Before eternity 

62 Shall seal the whole to darkness 

6* That hath no part in Me. 



Line 43. Again tlie devil talietli him up into an exceeding higli 
mountain, and 'slieweth liim all the kingdoms of the 
world, and the glory of them — and saith unto him. All 
these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down 
and worship me. — Matt. 4 : S, 9. 

Line 52. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole 
world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man 
give in exchange for his soul? — Matt. 16: 26. 

Line 53. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights 
he was afterward an hungred. — Matt. 4 : 2. 

Line 59. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding 
him should kill him.— Gen. 14: 15. 

Line 63. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land 
of darkness and the shadow of death. 

A land of darkness as darkness itself; and of the shad- 
ow of death, without any order, and where the light 
is as darkness.^Job 10: 21, 22; Isa. 8: 22; Luke 11: 34; 
Col. 1: 13; Jude 6: 13. 



45 



10 



DISCIPLESHIP 

1 They loved Thee, Lord, who followed 

2 Thy bleeding footprints as they led 
^ To shameful heights of Calvary. 

^ They loved Thee, though they turned and 

fled 

^ As Death's grim cohorts menaced — 
^ They loved, e'en while deserting Thee. 

'^ They loved Thee, Lord, through quiet days, 

'^ Ere sought of multitudes that raised 
9 The envious hate of priestly men ; 

They loved Thee, Lord, the men of old, 

11 Who watched the " Kingdom's " grace unfold, 

1- " Not of this world," though shown herein. 

1^ And so today, on darkened earth, 

1* That knew the glory of Thy birth, 

15 Men live, " Not having seen," who love 

16 The Elder Brother of their race; 

1'^ Believers, through the commonplace, 
1^ Of an ideal their lives above. 



Line 5. But all this was clone, that the scriptures of the proph- 
ets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook 
him and fled.— Matt. 26: 56. 

Line S. And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests 
and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to 
destroy him. — Luke 19: 47. 

Line 11. Jesus answered. My kingdom is not of this world : if 
my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants 
fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but 
now is my kingdom not from hence. — John IS: 36. 

Line 15. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen 
me, thou hast believed : blessed are they that have not 
seen and yet have believed. — John 20: 29. 

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^^ Weaklings in thought and act and will, 

20 Heirs of the Christ, we follow still 

21 Afar a solitary " Way," 

22 Till we in turn may speak the word 

23 By self unknown, by men unheard, 

2* That meant Love in the former day. 



liine 20. Heirs of God and joint lieirs with Christ ; if so be that 
we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified togeth- 
er. — Romans 8: 17. 

Line 21. And they all forsook him, and fled. — Mark 14: 50; Luke 
22: 54. 

Line 23. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
and we beheld the glory, the glory a's of the only be- 
gotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. — John 1 : 
14. 

Line 24. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 
manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the 
stone a new name written, which no man knoweth sav- 
ing he that receiveth it. — Rev. 2 : 17. 



47 



The Crucifixion 



THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE 

1 When in the way the multitude 

2 Their festal garments spread, 

^ And branches of the palm trees strewed, 

4 And loud hosannas said, 

^ The Son of Man alone did know, 

^ Amid the jubilee, 

'^ The pathway's ending, far below, 

^ In dark Gethsemane. 

^ The Son of Man, the Son of Man! 

10 Who would His glory see 

11 Must follow where the conflict ran 

12 Through earth's Gethsemane. 

12 O'er many roads the pilgrims tread, 

1^ By many paths they near 

1^ The place of sorrow and of dread, 

1^ The garden of their fear. 

1'^ However bright the sun shines down, 

1^ Or thronged the mountains be, 

1^ Past swift acclaim or world's renown 

"^^ There waits, Gethsemane. 



Line 1. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the 
way ; others cut down branches from the trees, and 
strawed them in the way. 

And the multitudes that went before, and that fol- 
lowed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. — 
Matt. 21: 8, 9. 

Line 10. Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the 
hour is come; glorifv thy Son. that thy Son also may 
glorify thee.— John 17: 1, 4, 22, 24. 

Line 16. When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth 
with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a 
garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. — 
John 18: 1; Luke 22: 40; Mark 14: 32, 34. 

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21 The Son of Man, the Son of Man, 

22 Whom do men say is He? 

23 The one who serves the Father's plan 
2^ Through earth's Gethsemane. 

25 And is my strength through soHtiide 

26 The unseen Father's gain? 

2'^ Is He through each vicissitude 

2^ Made stronger by my pain? 

29 Then wilHngly the vale I near 

^^ The Father's aid to be, 

^1 Not mine but Thine the Will, made clear, 

22 Our tryst Gethsemane. 

"^ The Son of Man, the Son of Man, 

"^ No other road hath He. 

3-^ The morning star since night began 

3*" Lights earth's Gethsemane. 



Line 22. Jesus asked his disciples, saying, Wliom do men say 
tliat I tlie Son of man am?— Matt. 16: 13; Zee. 6: 12. 

Line 31. Saying — Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from 
me: nevertheless not my will, but thine be done. — Luke 
22: 42. 

Line 35. I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold him, but not 
nigh ; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a 
Sceptre shall rise out of Israel. — Numbers 24: 17; Rev. 
22: 16; 2 Pet. 1: 19. 



52 



UNNOTED 

The day of the crucifixion 

There is no hint in the air 
Of the ghastly sight that the hillside 

Holds in the sunlight's glare. 
If you chance to walk in the gardens, 

Flower laden and fair, 
Or tO' buy of the mart's profusion. 

There is no hint in the air. 

The day of the crucifixion 

The world goes careless by ; 
Each to his toil or pleasure 

Its servitors apply. 
Through mirth and music and feasting 

Each may his God descry, 
But the One of the crucifixion 

The world goes careless by. 



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THE SACRIFICE 

1 " Let be, let be," they said of Him, 

2 The Victim on the tree ; 

3 " If Elias or other one 

* Now help Him we shall see." 

^ Not knowing what they did, they spoke ; 
^ Not yet know men " the way " — 

7 The occult law, " the truth " of God 
^ But few have reached today. 

^ The sacrifice of low to high 
^^ Man yieldeth in the strife, 

11 To save another, lose the self, 

12 Such is the law of " life." 

1^ No question more of saving aught 
1^ Of visible or shown, 

1^ The giving out, the impulse forth 
1^ Brings Love unto his own. 

1'^ O Spirit of the risen God! 

1^ This known, no mockers rave ; 

19 He who through love the world would win 

20 Himself he cannot save. 



Line 1. The rest said, Let be, let us see whetlier Elias will come 
to save him. — Matt. 27: 49. 

Line 8. So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be 
called but few chosen.— Matt. 20: 16; Matt. 7: 13. 

Line 11. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and 
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. — 
John 14: 6. 

Line 13. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and who- 
.soever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. — Matt. 
16: 25. 

Line 17. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.^-Matt. 28: 6. 

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SERVICE 

^ Once in a while in life's bitter reign 

2 Clear in the murk, from the discords plain, 

^ My brother's soul makes call, 

* And I answer, " Lord, as for every one 

^ Was Thine anguish quickened. Thy service 

done — 

^ Let me raise who faint and fall." 

'^ Once in a while, mid life's pomps that please, 
^ From my selfish pleasure I seek to ease 
My brother's anguished need. 
But, O Christ of God, as Thy love was shown 
To " the least of these," Thy acclaimed own, 
Let me help Thy " poor indeed." 

1^ Once in a while, may my heart recall 

^'* The hour's advancing that endeth all 

^^ Life's effort and life's loss ; 

^^ Aye, every hour may my vision see 

^'^ My brother slain on life's shameful tree — 

1^ My God upon life's cross. 



Line 2. For the Lord thv God is a consuming Are, even a jealous 
God.— Deut. 4: 24; Ex. 24: 17; Isa. 33: 14, 17. 

Line 5. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and 
his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling 
down to the ground. — Luke 22: 44; Mark 9: 41. 

Line 11. Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto 
one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it 
unto me. — Matt. 25: 40. 

Line 12. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye 
have not always.— Matt. 2fi: 11; Prov. 19: 17; Prov. 14: 
31; Gal. 2: 10. 

Line 17. He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how 
can he love God whom he hath not seen? — 1 John 4: 20. 

Line 18. If they shall fall away to renew them again unto re- 
pentance; Seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of 
God afresh, and put him to an open shame. — Heb. 6: 6. 

55 



THE CRUCIFIED 

He who saved the World groaned only- 
One day on the cross: 

Every morning mine stands ready, 
Not for gain — but loss. 

Naught is saved because my anguish 

Binds and tortures so; 
Vain the human abnegation, 

Waste the human woe. 



56 



What Think Ye of Christ ? 



ATONEMENT 

1 I think that God — when the last cry is stilled 

2 I uttered in the all-consuming fire 

^ That sweeps between Him and the soul's 

desire — 

^ Will fail not to remember how I willed 
^ So otherwise, before the pang and stress 

^ Of suffering obscured the vision blest, 

'^ Perceived at the beginning of life's quest, 

^ And will forgive — that only — when I rest. 

^ That no remembrance of the words I said, 
^^ When writhing in the fierceness of life's 

flame, 

11 Will echo at the sounding of my name 

12 Before Him by the Angel of the Dead — 

1^ That in that hour supreme one name alone 

1* Thine, Christ, will all my agony atone. 



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THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL 

1 I think of that day when the Master 

2 In the synagogue stood up to read, 

^ And mind — not the text of His choosing, 

"* Or the gospel He read, or the creed — 

^ But how, the book closed and regiven, 

^ He sat down among people again 

■^ And said : " Ye will tell Me the proverb — 

^ Heal Thyself thou Physician of men." 

^ Imagine His face as He said it ! 

^^ How human it looked, and His smile, 

^^ As you and I might in our jesting 

12 Through our laughter draw nearer the 

while. 

13 We read how He wept, and His yearning 
1* Is oft told us: the record is clear. 

1^ We know of His love and His sorrow, 

1^ But this time was His moment of cheer. 

1'^ A moment He lingered, subduing 

1^ To the ways of the human His speech, 

1^ Before He spoke on of the prophet 

^^ Who his countrymen's hearts could not 
reach. 



Line 2. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought 
up ; and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue 
on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. — Luke 4: 
16. 

Line 5. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the 
minister, and sat down, and the eyes of all them that 
were in the synagogue were fastened on him. — Luke 4: 
20. 

Line 8. And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this 
proverb. Physician heal thyself: Whatsoever we have 
heard done in Capernaum do also here in thy country. — 
Luke 4: 23. 

Line 20. And he said. Verily I say unto you. No prophet is ac- 
cepted in his own country. — Luke 4: 24; Matt. 13: 57; 
Mark 6: 4; John 4: 44. 



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2^ The Christ is unknown by the people 

22 Unto whom He doth bring of hfe's bread. 

23 The "Life " and the " Truth " of the prophet 

24 Are found through the " Way " of the dead. 

25 False Christs are they all, who win riches 

26 And honor from men by their claim, 
2'^ They know not the power of the Spirit, 
28 When they cling to the letter of fame. 



2^ The faithful will keep His commandments, 

^^ Of them this is the last and the first: 

^^ To love one another, nor falter, 

32 Though rewarded of men or accursed. 



33 Lo, this is the Law and the Prophets, 
3* And there is no Law greater than this, 

3^ The one who would teach it must live it, 

And the one who would grasp it shall miss. 

And this is the Law and the Gospel — 
In the lives of the prophets it hides — 
Man's self is the same as his brothers', 
^^ And in Christ is the Self that abides. 



36 

37 
38 
39 



Line 21. Howbelt we know this man whence he is: but when 
Christ Cometh, no m<in linoweth whence he is. — John 7: 
27, 28; Matt. 13: 55, 56. 

Line 22. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I 
am the bread which came down from heaven.— John 6: 
41, 48, 51. 

Line 24. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the 
life.— John 14: 6; John 11: 25. 

Line 25. For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall 
shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible 
even the elect. — Mark 13 : 22. 

Line 27. It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh proflteth noth- 
ing.— John 6: 63. 

Line 32. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and perse- 
cute you. and shall say all manner of evil against you 
falsely, for my sake. — Matt. 5: 11, 12. 

Line 36. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth 
his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. — 
John 12: 25; Luke 17: 33. 

Line 37. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men 
should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is 
the law and the prophets. — Matt. 7: 12. 

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THE CHRISTIAN 

1 I love you, for I pity you. 

2 " O weakling-, can it be 

2 You dare blaspheme the Christ of God?" 

^ Not so, I pity Him who trod 

^ The shores of Galilee. 

^ The Man who came unto His own, 
"^ Who knew Him but in part, 

^ Who followed for the marvels shown 
^ In village and in mart, 

^^ But entered ne'er the desert place 

11 Wherein He sought the healing grace 

12 That He might more impart. 

1^ I love you, for I pity you. 

1^ " O mortal man, beware ! 

1^ What can you offer to the One 

1^ Whom angels strengthened, when alone, 

1"^ With ministering- care?" 

1^ I offer what I have of life, 

19 To Him who showed Life's Way, 

^^ The understanding won from strife. 



Line 5. And it came to pass in those days, that Jesii's came from 
Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jor- 
dan. — Mark 1: 9. 

Line 7. John answered them, saying, I baptize with water; but 
there standeth one among you whom ye know not. — 
John 1: 26. 

Line 8. Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say 
unto you, ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, 
but becau'se ye did eat of the loaves and were filled. — ■ 
John 6: 26. 

Line 10. And when it was day, he departed and went into a 
desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto 
him, and staved him, that he should not depart from 
them.— Luke 4: 42; Mark 6: 31. 

Line 16. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, 
strengthening him.— Luke 22: 43; Matt. 4: 11; Heb. 1: 
14. 

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21 



23 
24 



O Jesus, if today 
You stood again among the few, 
And I might see and speak with You 

And grant — nor take alway ! 



^^ I love you, for I pity you. 

^^ I tread where Jesus trod, 

^^ I see the Christ Hght He did bring 

2^ Through love and human suffering — 

^^ So dare I pity God. 

^•^ To have what no man cares to take, 

^^ To love and be denied, 

^2 To know the Truth that men forsake, 

^^ Such are the crucified. 

^* O waiting God! to feel Your need 

^^ Is to be born of You indeed, 

^^ With likeness satisfied. 



Line 32. Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise 
men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and 
crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your 
synagogues, and persecute them from city to city. — Matt. 
23: 34. 

Line 36. As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I 
shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. — 
Psa. 17: 15. 



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THE WELCOMING 

1 If He should come — 

2 As come He has — 

^ Into the commonplace 

^ Of daily life to sup with me, 

^ What could I do that men might see 

^ The miracle of grace? 

'^ If He should wait — 

^ As now He stands — 

^ Beside my door this day, 

^^ Until with pomp and majesty 

^1 Of welcoming, my ecstasy 

^2 Made opulent display. 

13 If He should ask— 

14 Who ministers — ■ 

15 What gifts have I to bring, 

1^ Gleaned from the kingdoms of the earth, 

1'^ And garnered from my brother's dearth 

1^ To glorify my King. 



Line 1. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messlas com- 
eth, which is called Christ; when he is come, he will 
tell us all things.— John 4: 25; John 14: 18; John 5: 38, 
43; John 7: 27. 

Line 4. Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear 
my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, 
arid will sup with him, and he with me. — Rev. 3: 20; 
Luke 12: 37. 

Line 6. Who when he came and had seen the grace of God, 
was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of 
heart they would cleave unto the Lord. — Acts 11: 23; 
Zee. 12: 10; John 1: 14, 16, 17; Acts 4: 33; John 14: 17. 

Line 12. I receive not honour from men. — John 5: 41. 

Line 14. Jesus answered them. My Father worketh hitherto, and 
I work.— John 5: 17; John 13: 14, 15; Matt. 20: 28; Luke 
22 : 27 

Line 18. Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said. Now Is 
the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. — 
John 13: 31, 32; John 14: 13; John 16: 14; John 17: 
5, 22. 

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19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 

25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 



If He had need — 
Who govcrnetli — 

O Master, can it be 
As of old time Thou wanderest, 
Seeking with homeless head the rest 

Of Love's dear charity? 

If He should take — 
Who asks but love — 

What are the words He saith? 
"As unto Me " — before My door 
Moving among earth's always poor, 

The Christos vanisheth. 



Line 20. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, 
and the world knew him not. — John 1 : 10. 

Line 22. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes and the 
birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath 
not where to lay his head. — Matt. 8: 20. 

Line 24. He came unto his own and his own received him not. — 
John 1: 11; John 14: 21; John 15: 12. 

Line 28. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of 
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. — Matt. 25: 
40. 

Line 30. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, 
though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, 
that ye through his poverty might be rich. — 2 Cor. 8:9: 
Deut. 15: 11; Matt. 26: 11; Job 24: 4; Mark 14: 7. 

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Equation 



THE DIVINE 

1 There is Love and there is Justice : 

2 Stand they side by side. 

2 If I would I could not save you 

4 From your sin or pride. 

5 You must pay the utmost farthing, 
^ Love cannot undo 

'' The sin's debt — I may not share it, 
^ It is paid by you. 



Line 5. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out 
thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. — Matt. 
5: 26. 



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WHO IS NOT FAR 

1 If haply we may find Him 

2 A mystery we seek, 

^ A strength past comprehension 

■* To guard our purpose weak, 

5 A tenderness supernal, 

^ Our terror to command. 

'^ He is not far from one of us 

^ If we can understand. 

9 If haply we may find Him, 

1*^ Who is so close beside, 

11 The answer to our seeking 

12 Shall enter and abide, 

13 Shall sup with us our sorrow, 
1* Until, grown strangely wise 

1^ Through sharing with the Highest, 

1^ Our Lord we recognize. 



Line 1. That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might 
feel after him and find him, though he be not far from 
every one of us. — Acts 17: 27. 

Line 10. Behold he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth 
at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. — 
Sol. Song, 2: 9. 

Line 12. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear 
fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can 
ye, except ye abide in me. — John 15: 4, 7. 

Line 13. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear 
my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and 
will sup with him, and he with me. — Rev. 3: 20. 

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WHICH 
God or Mammon? 

1 With power the Son of Man 

2 Walks to and fro the earth, 

3 For self He wields His mighty plan 

4 Unto His brother's dearth. 

^ The Son of God with love 

^ His only dwelling hath, 

'^ And no man may His power approve, 

* Save whom He comforteth. 

' Which will ye be? but one 

10 Is of our life's strength made — 

11 One power must be by us unknown 

12 Or both by us betrayed. 



Line 6. And the servant abideth not in tlie liouse forever: but 
the Son abideth ever.— John 8: 35; John 14: 19. 

Line 7. Jesus answered. My kingdom is not of this world: if 
my iiingdom were of this world, then would my serv- 
ants fight, that I should not now be delivered to the 
Jews : But now is my kingdom not from hence. — John 
18: 36. 

Line 8. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all com- 
fort. 

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may 
be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the 
comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 
—2 Cor. 1: 3, 4; John 14: 18. 

Line 12. No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate 
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to 
the one, and despise the other. 
Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Luke 16: 13. 

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APPORTIONMENT 

1 That you were put there for the growing, 

2 And not that the others might see 

^ The blossoms you make for My knowing 
* I teach you, your grace is for Me. 

^ For I am the Way and the Lighting, 
6 And I am the Truth you shall show, 

■^ The world will not heed the uniting — 
^ Your part in the world is to grow. 

^ I waited through aeons your making, 
'^^ And can you not watch for an hour 

11 The growth of My Plan's undertaking? 

12 Are you alone worthy. My flower? 

1^ Not only through you may I carry 
1^ A message, lo, others there are. 

1^ I will that men hasten or tarry, 
1^ I portion the near or the far. 

1'^ If no one beside knows the moment 
1^ Your soul in My garden has birth — 

1^ And if, without question or comment 

20 You pass from mankind and the earth — 

21 Lo, Mine are the years and their proving, 

22 And shall be while Wisdom endures, 

23 But effort and patience and loving, 
2* Beyond all demanding are yours. 



Line 5. Jesus saith unto him, I am tlie way, the truth, and the 
life.— John 14: 16. 

Line 7. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more ; but 

ye see me, because I live, ye shall live also. — John 14: 

19. 
Line 10. And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them 

asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch 

with me one hour? — Matt. 26: 40. 

Line 15. Jesus saith unto him. If I will that he tarry till I come, 
what is that to thee? follow thou me.— John 21: 22. 



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THE MANIFEST 



^ Oh, the great World, the wide World, 

2 And all the miles of space, 

^ The room for every creature 

^ Before the Father's face, 

^ The falling of the sparrow 

^ Noted by the God above, 

'^ Oh, the great World, the wide World, 

^ That holds no place for Love. 

9 Oh, the old World, the cold World, 

10 And the December snow, 

11 The searching of the East Wind, 

12 The Norther's swirling blow, 

13 The menace of the Northland, 
1* The fever of the South, 

1^ The terror of the tempest 

1^ And the bitter months of drouth. 

1'^ The cruel World, the false World, 



1! 



The troubled World of men ; 



Line 1. And he said unto tiiem, Ye are from beneath ; I am from 
above; Ye are of this world; I am not of this world. — 
John 8: 23. 

Line 3. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living crea- 
ture after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast 
of the earth after his kind ; and it was so. — Gen. 1 : 24. 

Line 4. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones ; 

for I say unto you. That in heaven their angels do 

always behold the face of my Father which is in lieaven. 

—Matt. 18: 10. 
Line 5. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of 

them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. — 

Matt. 10: 29. 
Line 8. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: 

but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen 

vou out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. — 

John 15: 19. 
Line 17. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before 

it hated you. — John 15: 18. 
Line 18. Peace I leave with you. my peace I give unto you : not 

as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your 

heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. — John 14: 27. 

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19 The Son of Man walks homeless 

20 The outer World again. 

"1 The days of His appointment 

22 He waits until shall come 

23 A new World, a true World, 

2^ The old World's toil therefrom. 



Line 19. Jesus saith unto him, Tlie foxes have holes, and the birds 
of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where 
to lay his head.— Matt. 8: 20. 

Line 21. If a man die shall he live again? all the days of my ap- 
pointed time will I wait, till my change come. — Job. 14: 
14. 

Line 23. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; 
old things are passed away ; behold all things are be- 
come new.— 2 Cor. 5 : 17 ; Rev. 21 : 1, 5. 



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1 



THE THINGS THAT PERISH 

Ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. — Psa. 
82: 7. 

Put not your trust in them, the things that 
perish, 
For thus ye perish, too — 
The things ye love, the things ye grasp and 
cherish, 
The things ye claim and do. 



^ Put not your trust where Change is lord and 

master, 
^ For what you trust shall be 

'^ That which abides, or ends in Death's disaster; 
^ I am the Lord your God — O man, trust Me! 

^ Me shall you love and serve in all devotion, 
^'^ If you would be the lord 

^^ Of Self, amid the senses' wild commotion. 
^2 I only everlastingness afford. 

1^ The Mighty Men, the Captains of the forces, 
^* Dividers of the spoil. 



Line 1. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that 
meat which endureth unto everlasting: life, which the Son 
of man shall give unto you. — John 6: 27. 

Line 5. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a 
spider's web. — Job 8: 14. 

Line 6. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
—Matt. 6: 21. 

Line 8. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, 
and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. — 
Psa. 18: 2. 

Line 12. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy do- 
minion endureth throughout nil generations. — Psa! 14.5: 
1.3; Isa. 60: 19; Jer. 31: 3; Psa. 90: 2; Psa. 103; 17; Matt. 
19: 29. 

Line 13. For the Sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but 
it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth — 
so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. — 
James 1: 11; Rev. 6: 1,5. 

Line 14. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will 
remember the name of the Lord our God. — Psa. 20: 7. 



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15 The Princes, falling- amid earth's resources, 

1^ Lie slain and cease their toil. 

1'^ Put not your trust in them, nor love nor serve 

them, 
1^ Lords many that ye make. 

19 Time's sport are they, then cease ye to observe 

them ; 
2^ The perishing forsake. 

^1 Trust not that which a grain of sand may 

alter, 
22 A breath may blast or turn. 

2^ O ye, w^ho heavy laden fail and falter, 

24 Come unto Me and learn. 

25 Many are called, My voice makes constant 

pleading, 
2^ Within each heart I call. 

2'^ Not by My " Will on earth " live men un- 
heeding. 
Not by My choice they fall. 

29 The fashion of this World, the old, old fashion 

^° Passeth away — if you 

^1 Seek that which perisheth, earth's pride and 

passion, 
32 W^hat bring ye Me unto? 



Line 15. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man 

in wliom tliere is no help. 

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in 

that very day his thoughts perish. — Psa. 146: 3, 4. 
Line IS. For though there be that are are called gods, whether in 

heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many and lords 

many).— 1 Cor. 8: 5; Ex. 20: 4, 5. 
Line 23. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 

and I will give you rest.— Matt. 11 : 28, 29. 
Line 25. So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many 

be called, but few chosen. — Matt. 20: 16. 
Line 27. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is 

in heaven. — Matt. 6: 10. 
Line 29. And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for 

the fashion of this world passeth away. — 1 Cor. 7: 31. 



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33 O you who have been and who shall be ever, 

34 Image and Thought of Me, 

35 You are not of the World — and your endeavor 

36 From it shall set you free. 

3'' But what ye wrest from Time's slow devasta- 
tion, 

38 From Life and Death, is yours — 

39 This is the Life etern, the re-creation, 
^^ And this alone endures. 

41 The Son of Man when lifted up, abideth ; 

42 Ever with Christ lives He. 

43 Who is the Son of Manf your voice decideth, 

44 And what His power shall be. 



Line 33. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou 
gavest me out of the world ; thine they were, and thou 
gavest them me; and they have liept thy word. — John 17: 
6. 

Line 36. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple 
of my God, and he shall go no more out. — Rev. 3: 12. 

Line 39. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee 
the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast 
sent. — John 17: 3. 

Line 41. The people answered him, We have heard out of the law 
that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The 
Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man? 
—John 12: 34. 

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THE ALIEN 

Jesus answered. My kingdom is not of this world: if my 
kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that 
I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom 
not from hence. — John 18: 36. 

1 I wandered through an aHen world that sought 

2 Its joy through stranger ways, to me un- 

known. 
^ I wandered far and ever walked alone, 

'^ And no man paused to answer to my thought, 

5 And no one showed the worth of that he 

wrought, 

6 Nor, all the journey through reached I my 

own. 

'^ If Some One, other, passing on His " way " 
^ The beauty and the power that whelm the 

soul, 
9 And, knowing these, their source and their 

control 
1" Had yet forecast my loneliness today — 

11 If Some One, other, long ago once said: 

12 " Come unto Me," what pathway should I 

tread? 



Line 1. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he 
hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can 
find out the work that God maketh from the beginning 
to the end. — Ecc. 3: 11. 

Line 7. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but 
spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed 
from them. 

The same time there arose no small stir about that 
way.— Acts 19: 9, 23; John 14: 6. 

Line 9. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, 
and the world knew him not. — John 1: 10. 

Line 12. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest. — Matt. 11: 28. 

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EVOLUTION 

^ Waiting, through the fire, waiting, through 

the flood, 
2 Till His heart's desire found Creation 

" Good "— 

^ Waiting, till the beast merged into the man, 
"* Loving each and least, Perfecting His Plan — 

^ Waiting, through the dark, waiting, through 

the frost, 
^ Till the human spark gleamed amid the host. 

"^ Knowing there must come answer to His 

thought, 
^ While the world lay dumb, still the Thinker 

sought, 

^ Spoke, the ages past, let Our image grace 
^*^ Man, the best and last of earth's fleeting race. 

So we came to take our place in the scheme — 
Watch the bubbles break on life's frothing 
stream. 



11 

12 



1^ Tried by flood and fire, as God's thought was 
tried. 
To our heart's desire naught shall be denied. 



14 



Line 1. And God said, Let there be light and there was light. 
—Gen. 1:3; Gen. 1: 2. 

Line 3. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and 
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth 
upon the earth after his kind and God saw that it was 
good — 

And God said, Let us make man in our image. — Gen. 1: 
25, 26. 

Line 14. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask. and 
ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. — John 16: 24. 



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^^ Lo, One came Who knew — centuries ago — 
1^ Spoke the wording true, through which we 
shall know ; 

1'^ " This that I have done ye shall do and more," 
^^ Spake the Holy One by the far seashore. 

1^ " If your faith be strong, down into the sea 
2^ Shall the hills of wrong be removed," said He. 

21 When such faith is ours. Evolution's plan 

22 Changed to greater powers, waiteth God and 

man. 



Line 16. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, 
and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, 
and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed 
from death unto life.— John 5: 24; Matt. 24: 35. 

Line 17. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he 
do also ; and greater works than these 'shall he do. — John 
14: 12. 

Line 19. If ye have faith, and doubt not, — ye shall say unto this 
mountain. Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the 
sea and it shall be done. — Matt. 21 : 21. 

Line 22. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet 
appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he 
shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him 
as he is. — 1 John 3: 2. 



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THE MESSENGER 

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that 
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that saith unto 
Zion, Thy God relgneth ! . . . For ye shall not go out with 
haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and 
the God of Israel will be your rereward. — Isa. 52: 7-12. 

One came unto the prison house, 

Who conquered long ago 
Its bars of flesh and pangs of pain — 

Its bondage to o'erthrow. 
One came unto the prison house, 

In no man's sight stood He, 
Yet slowly swung the gates and wide, 

And set the prisoner free. 

One came unto the prison house 

Undaunted by its gloom. 
With faces lifted to the stars, 

With feet upon the tomb. 
Invisibly and soundlessly. 

Forth to eternal day. 
From pain to peace, from night to light, 

Two went therefrom away. 



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UNPREPAREDNESS 

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable, and 
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and 
all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with 
fire and brimstone: which is the second death. — Rev. 21: 8. 

Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone 
most precious, even like a jasper 'stone, clear as crystal. — Rev. 
•21: n. 

And had a great wall and high and had twelve gates and at 
the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are 
the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. — Rev. 
21: 12. 

And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city 
was pure gold, like unto clear glass. — Rev. 21 : 18. 

And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished 
with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was 
jasper; the second sapphire; and the third a chalcedony; the 
fourth, an emerald. — Rev. 21: 19. 

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate 
was of one pearl: and the street of the city was of pure gold, 
as it were transparent glass. — Rev. 21: 21. 

The dust that swirled through the streets was gold, 
Where'er it touched was a shining place ; 

The great winds blew as on earth of old 
And quenched my spirit and stung my face. 

The shining dazzled me, burned my sight. 

(Is this the gold that was promised me?) 
" This is the place of thy heart's delight, 

And thy desire it is granted thee." 

Like to a jasper stone shone the wall. 

As crystal clear, and there was no shade — 

I saw the stones of its founding, all 

The precious stones, and I grew afraid. 

Of one large pearl was each several gate. 

The gates were twelve that all men pass through ; 

Outside dwelt passion and fear and hate. 
No unbelievers the City knew. 

O Thou, Who rulest this City's ways, 

I am not ready to live herein ! 
So full of silences were my days 

I cannot talk with the cherubim. 

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I have not brought here the strength to make 
Thy heaven better because of me, 

I ask Thee, Lord, for Christ Jesus' sake 
One more earth chance ere eternity. 



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CONSENT 

1 Like a sponge gathered from the ocean, 

2 Torn from deep sea bed, 

^ All revolting at life's quickened motion 

'* Pallid, dry and dead — 

5 Asking only the remembered filling 

^ That once meant to live, 

■^ So I call, for life's great use unwilling, 

^ Give, O Master, give ! 

^ Heeding not my complaint or asking 
1° Work the Masters on ; 

11 Using many in their mighty tasking, 

12 Or, mayhap, but one. 

1^ Let me help, although I comprehend not, 
1* Though my life you break — 

15 I no longer seek it, I defend not, 

16 Take, O Master, take! 



Line 14. He that findeth his life shall lose it : and he that loseth 
his life for my sake shall find it— Matt. 10: 39. 



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THE QUICKENING 

1 The day the Spirit came to me 

2 The world 'vas darkened with my wrong". 
^ With burdened heart I moved along 

4 The highways of man's misery, 

5 Nor called to hope, nor made one plea, 

6 Save that to death I might belong. 

■^ The day the Spirit came to me, 

8 O miracle, O Quick'ning Grace! 

^ Changed was the world of outer space, 

1" Changed was the neighbor I should see 

11 And love as self — changed, verily, 

12 And new create seemed every place. 

13 Yet. when the Spirit came to me, 
1'* What worthiness had I begun, 

1^ That from my life's despair was won 

1^ Such earnest of Infinity? 

1'^ I nothing of myself can see. 

18 I nothing of myself have done. 

1^ The day the Spirit came to me — 

^^ Alas that e'er the Spirit went ! 

21 The mountain of my discontent 

22 Was moved and cast into the sea. 

23 The Spirit came and I was free, 

24 And where it listeth I was sent. 



Line 10. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.— Matt. 22: 39. 

Line 17. The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth 
the Father do.— John 5: 19, 30; John 8: 28. 

Line 21. If ye have faith, and doubt not, ... ye shall say unto this 
mountain. Be thou removed and be thou cast into the 
sea ; and it shall be done. — Matt. 21 : 21. 

Line '>^ The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the 
sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and 
whither it goeth : So is every one that is born of the 
Spirit.— John 3: 8. 

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25 The Spirit once shall come to me 

26 And evermore with me abide, 
2'^ When I, the mortal crucified, 

28 Like Israel the daybreak see. 

29 Forevermore — not momently, 

30 The Spirit into truth shall guide. 



Line 28. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he 
said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. — Gen. 
32: 26, 28. 

Line 30. When he. the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you 
into all truth.— John 16: 13. 



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ISOLATION 

1 It is a lonely Path 

2 Where thou thy feet wouldst set ; 

3 Art sure thy spirit hath 

4 The strength for climbing yet? 

5 It hath an upward trend 

6 Which never turneth back; 

"' Thou mayst not take thy friend, 

s And kinship thou must lack. 

9 God knows what thou shalt find, 

10 What thou must lose He knows- 

11 Give thou the willing mind, 

12 The pathway He bestows. 

13 Seek not a peace to gain 

14 For thine own striving soul, 

15 Nor ask to once attain 

16 Such parting from the Whole. 

1'^ Not for a purposed Good 

18 Seek thou the upward track : 

19 The Path is understood 

20 By those who all things lack. 

21 When thou hast reached the end, 

22 And grasped the Mighty Plan, 

23 Unite with kin and friend 

24 Thyself — and God and man. 



Line 10. Then said lie. Lo. I come to do tliy will. O God. He tak- 
eth awav the first that he may establish the second.— 
Heb. 10 :" 9. 

Line 11 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is 
written of me) to do thy will, O God.— Heb. 10: 7. 

Line 20. Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the 
birds of the air have nests : but the Son of man hath 
not where to lay his head.— Matt. 8: 20. 

Line 2.3. Verilv, verilv, I say unto you. He that receiveth whom- 
soever I send receiveth me, and he that receiveth me 
receiveth him that sent me. — John 14: 20. 

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THE MESSENGER 

1 I have not come to you with some great good 

2 That I have found and that none other could. 

^ I do not speak to you because I know 

^ All of Life's source — but that I love you so. 

^ Something of earth's inheritance of pain, 

^ Won through my loss, I ofifer for your gain. 

'^ Through Love's humility we understand 

^ That which the Infinite for us hath planned. 

^ No man comes unto God, nor ever can, 
^•^ Save through Love's primal need that fash- 
ioned man. 

11 Only through Love, the yearning that the 

Good 

12 Be also by my brother understood — 

1^ Only through Love, that you may know as I, 
1^ Can we, O friend, our Kinsman, God, descry. 



Line 9. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. — John 
14: 6. 

Line 10. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the Word was God. 

All things were made by him; and without him was not 
anything made that was made. — John 1: 1, 3. 

Line 12. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay 
down his life for his friends. — John 15: 13. 

Line 14. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed 
upon us, that we should be called the 'sons of God: 
therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him 
not. — 1 John 3: 1. 



REVERENCE 

I never pass one by — 
The soldier-men, who go 

At bidding of the people's need 
On errands to and fro — 



^ But all my being- thrills 

^ (Though I the call refute). 

'^ Instinctively my spirit wills 

^ To give him the salute. 

^ I always, to myself, 

^^ Acknowledge silently, 

1^ Christ's likeness in my brother man- 

^2 One who would die for me. 



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THE MUTABLE 

^ For we know what we are, One made this 
statement 

2 Long centuries ago, 

^ Sin cursed, woe companied without abate- 
ment, 

^ What we are that we know. 

^ But what we shall be, never line or plummet 
^ Hath sounded or can prove. 

"^ It doth not yet appear, the mountain's summit 
^ Toward which by faith we move. 

^ When we forget our knowledge' specious 

comment 
^^ What we shall be will show 

11 Unsullied and undimmed, but till that moment 

12 The Plan we may not know. 

13 What we are we know, no one can know bet- 

ter, 
1* Not He whose law transcends 

15 The human concept, struggling in its fetter 
1^ Toward Him Who called us " friends." 

1' We dare to think an answer to God's calling, 
1^ Though we can only say, 

1^ Amid our weaknesses, striving and falling, 
We know in part, today. 

But oh, the days that wait, the months and 
seasons 



Line 7. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not 
yet appear what we shall be; — 1 John 3: 2. 

Line 16. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant know- 
eth not what his lord doeth ; but I have called you 
friends. — John 15: 15. 

Line 20. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. — 1 Cor. 
13: 0. 

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20 



22 Ere numl)ered are the years. 

23 Not yet, O sons of God, are shown His 

reasons, 

24 Nor what shall be appears. 

25 Aye, what we are we know, God's — chained 

and stricken — 
2^ We count Time's bitter throe. 

2^ But what we shall be when the One shall 

quicken, 
28 As yet we do not know. 



Line 22. Behold God is great, and we know iiim not, neither t-an 
the number of his years be searched out. — Job 36: 26; 
Rev. 13: IS. 

Line 23. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to 
present themselves before the Lord. — Job 1:6; John 10: 
34, 35. 

Line 27. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the 
dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead 
shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that 
dwelleth in you. — Rom. 8: 11. 



91 



REGENERATION 

1 First, discontent 

2 With what the hand can reach, and then 
^ Grieving^, as swift each bubble breaks 

^ Within the grasp, that overtakes 
^ To lose again. 

^ Dull wonderment, as life goes on, 

^ Unchecked by loss of all that made 

^ The effort it has undergone 

^ Seem worth the struggle thus betrayed. 

1^ An insight into Order's laws, 

^1 Thence surety, past all hopes or fears, 

^2 Of living strength through nature's flaws, 

1^ Of good beyond the fleeting years. 

14 Perception through the letter's art 

1^ Of truths its forms but dimly show, 

1^ That one must lose life's counterpart 

1^ Before the real life he may know. 

1^ He who would find his life must lose 

1^ Desire that all may understand 

2*^ Its poor expression, and must choose 

21 To be, unproved, the substance grand. 

22 Regenerate, aye, born again — 

23 These are the throes the soul must bear 

24 Before its entrance otherwhere 

25 To truths but dimly guessed of men. 

Line 16. Whosoever 'shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and 

whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. — Luke 17: 

33. 
Line 18. He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth 

his life for my sake shall find it. — Matt. 10: 39; John 

12: 25. 
Line 22. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say 

unto thee. Except a man be born again, he cannot see 

the kingdom of God.— John 3: 3, 6, 7, 8; 1 Peter 1: 23; 

Ecc. 11: 5. 



92 



MAMMON 

For the writing which is written in the King's name and 
sealed with the King's ring, may no man reverse.— Esther 8: 8. 

1 Oh, the writing which is written in the King's 

name 

2 No other word so sure! 

3 We bow before its power in our prisons 

4 And all its laws endure; 

5 But that which makes the writing and the 

power 

6 We dare not yet abjure. 

■^ Oh, the writing which is written in the King's 

name 
s And sealed with his ring, 

^ Contains within the characters and signet 

10 The power of the King! 

11 Relentlessly it moves, though in the palace 

12 The King lies slumbering. 

13 Oh, the writing and the sealing in the King's 

name 

14 These may no man reverse! 

15 Till Love shall bring both King and men as 

brothers 
1^ In the New Universe. 

1^ With " former things " shall pass away the 

" writing " 
1^ And be no more a curse. 



Line 15. He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how 
can he love God whom he hath not seen? — 1 John 4: 20, 
21. 

Line 17. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor 
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the 
former things are passed away. — Rev. 21 : 4. 

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MEMORIALS 

^ Voltaire, who built the church to God, 

2 Was not peculiar or alone 

^ In building a memorial pile — 

•* To God or self — of wood and stone. 

^ Great gifts to God and to His sons 
^ The learned and wise in their degree 

" Are building yet, through all the earth, 
^ In College and in Library. 

^ One thing we lack, like him of old, 
^^ One tabernacle to endure, 

^^ We have not yet " sold all " and lost 
12 From out our midst the " always poor." 

1^ We lack in love — our knowledge vain — 
1"* To help God's need should man's be done 

1^ From ofif the earth ere we attain 
1^ The consciousness of all in one. 

1'^ O men who pause to rear the pile 
1^ As hard as heart ere Love awakes, 

1^ Not in the temples made with hands 
^^ Abides the Life our life partakes. 



Line 11. Jesu's said unto liim. if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell 
that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt 
have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.^ 
Matt. 19: 21. 

Line 12. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever 
ye will ye may do them good ; but me ye have not al- 
ways. — Mark 14: 7. 

Line 19. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made 
with hands.— Acts 7: 4S. 

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THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER 

Over and over the seed must be sown — 
Here a thought, there a thought, scattered and 
thrown. 

Sameness? Aye, verily! one is the thought; 
Love is the germ cell in each seed enwrought. 

Cherish it, nourish it, although thy ground 
Swept by the winds on bleak hillside is found. 

Cover it, moisten it, man, with thy tears, 

God gives the sunshine. He garners the years. 

When the abiding in earth life is done, 
Past further hiding there shineth the sun. 



95 



GLAD TIDINGS 

^ Love is the law, fulfilled in word and deed. 

2 For us who love there is no law, they say 

^ Within the Scripture of the older day; 

^ Then rise we to the Gospel's claim, unfreed. 

^ The Gospel! I have found its meaning true, 
^ Apart from creeds and from the preacher's 

plan ; 
'^ Come ye who thirst and hunger, find it, too, 
^ Oh, live its benediction, ye who can. 



Line 7. In the last day, that great day of the feast; Jesus stood 
and cried, saying, If any man thirst let him come unto 
me and drink.— John 7: 37; Isa. 55: 1. 



96 



THE SOJOURNER 

^ All of my life I wanted you, 

2 Who also hear the Word, 

^ And first I hoped and then despaired, 

* Lest I alone had heard. 

^ I missed you ever, through the day, 

^ Or through the midnight's lack. 

'^ I called, but you were far away 

^ And gave no answer back. 

^ All of my life — and it was long — 
'^^ All of my life I turned 

11 From heart to heart, from soul to soul, 

12 For that for which I yearned. 

1^ At last I knew that ne'er on earth 
1* Should I the sought-for see, 

1^ And then I said: Perhaps God knows 
1^ What is the best for me. 

1"^ But oh, I could not go away — 
1^ Not even where God stays — 

1^ Unknown and all unloved of you 
-•^ Who live earth's many days, 

21 Or who have lived, or who shall live. 

22 With God it is all one, 

23 Yet must I tell, yet must you hear 
2* Before Time's day is done. 



Line 2. And the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's 
which sent me. — John 14: 24; John 12: 49. 

Line 20. Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shalt find it 
after many days. — Ecc. 11: 1. 

Line 22. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yester- 
day when it is past, and as a watch in the night. — Psa. 
90: 4. 

Line 24. I must work the works of him that 'sent me, while it 
is day ; the night cometh when no man can work. — John 
9: 4. 

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25 The sympathy that has no end 

-^ And no beginning, waits, 

2"^ Freed from earth's need, freed from earth's 

claim, 
2^ That mars and desolates. 

29 And so I utter as I pass 
^^ What you may claim of choice, 

^1 I to the Father go — and leave 
^" The echo of my voice. 

2^ For not without — the soul within 

^^ The silent answer lies, 

^5 You live not separate, on earth 

3^ Or in God's paradise; 

2^ And yet through earth, because of earth, 

2^ Shall we Love's glory see. 

^9 The human could not go to you, 

*^ Yet shall you come to me. 



Line 31. A little while and ye shall not see me: and again, a 
little while, and ve shall see me, because I go to the 
Father.— John 16: 16, 17. 

Line 33. Then the spirit entered into me and set me upon my 
feet, and spake with me, and said unto me. Go, shut 
thyself within thine house. — Ez. 3: 24. 

Line 34. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath 
appointed unto me. — Luke 22: 29. 

Line 39. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. — John 
14: 4. 



98 



THE CONQUEST 

1 More than human ? How many men 

2 Live who are something- less? 

^ Human means sympathy, weakness, strength, 
^ And pitying tenderness. 

^ Less than human means cruelty, 

^ Evil to all, that one 

" Gain for himself what earth's toiling men 

^ Through centuries' strife have done. 

^ More than human means giving up 
^° All of the heart's demands; 

11 Giving until the great, asking world 

12 Gives also, and understands. 



Line 11. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would 
borrow of thee turn not thou away. — Matt. 5: 42, 40, 39; 
John 14: 27. 



99 



THE PERMANENT 

^ I love you — love me — who hear 

2 This echo from me on the earth, 

^ Of something unseen by the eye, 

^ Of somew^hat but known of the heart. 

^ Though I have gone I am near, 

^ Conscious of answer or dearth, 

'^ Though I am dead, yet not I — 

^ Listen, we are not apart. 

^ The voice of the Silence is loud 
1^ Only when two are as one. 

1^ Hearken, I speak to you here, 
1" I, who am free, this I tell : 

^^ Turn you apart from the crowd. 
1^ Answer it holds for you none. 

1^ I loved you while held by earth's fear, 
1^ I love you now free from Earth's spell. 

1'^ Though you are many or one, 

1^ Though you are numbered or few, 

1^ Never one lived through earth's days 

20 Longing as I longed for you ; 

21 Hoping at rising of sun, 

22 Seeking through dusk and the dew, 

23 Calling at turn of the ways, 

24 Love me, ere living is through. 



Line 7. I am he that liveth. and was dead: and behold, I am 

alive for evermore. Amen. — Rev. 1 : 18. 
Line 10. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? — Amo's 

3: 3. 
Line 13. But without a parable spake he not unto them : And when 

thev were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. 

—Mark 4: 34. 
Line 14. The disciples came and said unto him. Why speakest 

thou unto them in parables? He answered — Because it is 

given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom 

of heaven, but to them it is not given. — Matt. 13: 10, 11. 
Line 18. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count 

the number of the beast; for it is the number of a 

man: and his number is six hundred threescore and six. 

—Rev. 13: 18. 

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25 Then, when you pause for a space, 

26 Holdin<r the Word in your hand, 
2'^ Think — this was formed in the heart 

28 Of one who, loving, would bless. 

29 Now is the time and the place, 
^^ Now is the hour to command, 
^1 That which was holden apart 

32 Waiteth the soul's consciousness. 



Line 29. Take ye heed, watch and pray : for ye know not when 
the time is.— Mark 13: 33. 

Line 30. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true wor- 
.shipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; 
for the Father seeketh such to worship him. — John 4: 23; 
Luke 12: 40. 



101 



IN MEMORY 

1 " Will you remember — " the rich man said, 

2 " The gifts of my hand, when my hand is 

still, 
^ The stone wrought temples, when asked for 

bread 
^ My largess granted the world instead? 
5 Shall my wealth's bestowal my wish fulfill?" 

^ " We will remember," the people cry, 

'^ While we toil and sufifer and starve and die." 

^ Halls that the wise men's thoughts be stayed 
9 In a foolish world where the vain things 

rule, 
^0 Marbles of Corinth, gold inlaid, 

11 Rich mosaic of pearl and jade, 

12 Workman's cunning of hand and tool — 

1^ To the query anxious the answer came, 

14 " With these before men shall last your fame." 

15 " While the dust flies back and the nostrils 

choke 
1^ Of the slow wayfarer beside the track, 

1'^ While the trumpets' echoes their sounds 

evoke, 
1^ While the broidered mantle the sin doth cloke, 
1^ While the many hunger, the poor have lack, 



Line 3. And when the tempter came to him, he 'said, If thou 
be the Son of God, command that these stones be made 
bread.— Matt. 4:3; Matt. 7: 9. 

Line 18. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not 
had sin: but now they have no clolse for their sin. — John 
1.5: 22. 

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20 



" While these things are shall your fame re- 
sound, 

21 While the needy suffer, the poor abound." 

22 " Will you remember," the rich man said, 

23 " Not my name alone, but the soul of me? 

24 When life's tumults gather above my head, 

25 And the victors trample my narrow bed 

26 Shall my death wrung millions buy mem- 

ory? " 

27 But the poor returned to the instant's need 

28 Nor answered longer the Man of Greed. 

29 One alone is remembered 

30 Through the ages — the Son of Man, 

31 One who walking the paths we tread 

32 Had not shelter to lay His head, 

33 Yet gave of Life, since His years began. 

3i "Come unto Me for earth's utmost, best, 

35 Heavy laden, I give you rest." 

36 Shamed, defeated and slain, this One, 

37 Son of Man, whom the Princes jeer, 
-'^ Yet to mortals His benison 

39 Lasteth ever of hope and cheer — 



Line 21. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: there- 
fore I oommand thee, saying. Thou shalt open thine 
hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy 
needy in thy land.— Deut. 15: 11. 

Line 32. And Jesus saith unto him. The foxes have holes, and 
the birds of the air have nests: but the Son of man 
hath not where to lay his head.— Matt. 8: 20. 

Line .3.3. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.— 
John 1:4; John 5: 26, 39, 40; John 6: 33; John 11: 25. 

Line 35. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest.— Matt. 11: 28. 

Line 37 The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me. 
—John 14: 30; Matt. 23: 31; Mark 15: 31. 

Line 38. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: 
whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said 
unto me, so I speak. — John 12: 50. 

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40 " He that loseth his Hfe for Me 

4^ Solveth ever Life's mystery." 

42 He who drinks of the cup shall know, 

43 He shall share who partakes the bread, 

44 Who believeth in Love shall show 

45 Life immortal though he were dead. 

46 " Will you remember? " no more we call 
4'^ When to the Christos is granted all. 

48 "Will you remember?" the cry shall cease 

49 When time is merged in the Christos' peace. 



Line 40. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth 
his life for my sake shall find it. — Matt. 10: 39. 

Line 42. But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. 
Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? — 
Matt. 20: 22; Matt. 10: 42. 

Line 43. I am that bread of life.— John 6: 48, 50, 51. 

Line 44. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: 
he that believeth in mo, though he were dead, yet shall 
he live; 

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never 
die. Believest thou this?— John 11: 25, 26. 

Line 49. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : not 
as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart 
be troubled, neither let it be afraid. — John 14: 27. 



104 



THE WORD MADE FLESH 

1 The Word made flesh, form clothed and visi- 

tell, 

2 The Word, that in the silence of the heart 
^ Stirring makes ever motion to depart 

■* Forth from its keeping-, out into man's earth — 

^ The Word revealing joy, portraying dearth, 

^ Haunting the pulsing brain until is heard 

'^ Reverberating through the worlds, the Word. 

^ " The flesh that nothing profiteth " shall go 
^ Back to earth's bosom, having served man's 
need. 
He be to others known no more through deed 
Or act, as when bound by the body's thrall 
He labored Avhile life's tasking did befall. 
Save only by the mystic Word and true — 
" Spirit and life are these I speak to you." 

Made flesh, deep burdened with the weight of 

years — 
Made flesh, and subject to the pains of hell — 



10 

11 

12 
13 
14 

15 
16 



Line 1. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. — 
John 1: 14. 

Line 8. It is the spirit that quiclieneth ; the flesh profiteth noth- 
ing.— John 6: 63. 

Line 12. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, 
and I work. — John 5: 17. 

Line 14. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and 
they are life.— John 6: 63. 

Line 15. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with 
sighing.— Psa. 31: 10; Psa. 38: 15. 

Line 16. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of 
hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. — ' 
Psa. 116: 3. 

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1"^ Made flesh — O God the Father, Thou canst 

tell, 
1^ Thou only transubstantiation's worth, 
^^ The use of Love's abandonment to earth. 
20 Since the beginning is the purpose shown. 
2^ Through flesh the Word still calleth to His 

own. 



Line 17. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry 
Abba, Father.— Rom. 8: 15, 16; Luke 10: 22. 

Line 20. In the beginning was the Word. — John 1 : 1. 

Line 21. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
and we beheld his glory. — John 1: 14. 



106 



JESUS MY SAVIOR 

^ Jesus, my Savior, 

^ Thou selfless mystery, 

^ In the World's Inn no room awaits 

^ Thy birth necessity. 

^ A place apart, within my heart, 

^ Must serve and shelter Thee. 

'' Jesus, my Savior, 
^ Mine only, mine alone ; 

^ To Gentile and to Jew in vain 
^^ Thy mystery is shown ; 

^^ Forevermore by the heart's door 
^^ Thou callest to Thine own. 



Line 1. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given 
to the Son to have life in himself. — John 5: 26. 

Line 2. I can of my own self do nothing; as I hear I judge; and 
my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, 
but the will of the Father which hath sent me. 
If I bear witness of myself mv witness is not true. — 
John 5: 30, 31; John 7: 28; John 8: 28, 54; John 14: 21. 

Line 3. She laid him in a manger; because there was no room 
for them in the inn. — Luke 2: 7. 

Line 4. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved 
me, and have believed that I came out from God. — John 
16: 27; John 14: 23. 

Line 6. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man 
hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to 
him, and will sup with him, and he with me. — Rev. 3: 20. 

Line 9. I, the Lord have called thee — and will give thee for a 
covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles. — Isa. 
42: 6; Acts 13: 46, 47. 

Line 12. Rev. 3: 12. 

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12 Jesus, my Savior, 

!■* Thou Healer of my sin, 

15 Who Hves for me, Who dies that I 

1^ Love's mystery may win, 

1'^ Who understand Thy love's command, 

1^ Thy proven near of kin. 

1^ Jesus, my Savior, 

20 Redeemer of mankind, 

21 Whom one by one and earnestly 

22 Thy brethren seeking, find, 

23 Across the years of grief and tears 
2^ Men reach the Father's mind. 

25 Jesus, my Savior, 

26 From out life's desert ways, 

2'^ With strength Thou comest for man's need 

2S As in the olden days ; 

29 Transformed, renewed, through solitude 

30 



The soul Love's law obeys. 



Line 14. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth witli tlie Holy Ghost 
and with power: Who went about doing good, and heal- 
ing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was 
with him.— Acts 10: 38. 

Line 15. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for 
sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God. 
I beseech you — that ye present your bodies a living sac- 
rifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reason- 
able service.— Heb. 10: 12; Romans 12: 1; Heb. 9: 26, 
28; Heb. 10: 5; 1 Cor. 5: 7. 

Line 18. But he answered and said — Who is my mother? and 
who are my brethren? For whosoever shall do the will 
of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my broth- 
er, and sister, and mother. — Matt. 12: 48, 50. 

Line 22. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sancti- 
fied are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed 
to call them brethren. — Heb. 2: 11. 

Line 24. I and my Father are one.— John 10: 30; John 10: 17. 

Line 26. And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a 
desert place, and rest for a while; for there were many 
coming and going, and thev had no leisure so much as to 
eat— Mark 6: 31; John 6: 3; Matt. 14: 23. 

Line 28. And when he had sent them away, he departed into a 
mountain to praj'. — Marie 6: 46. 



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31 Jesus, my Savior, 

32 Whom centuries blasplieme, 

33 Making Thy Hfe a vanished thing, 
3* Thy love a creed-worn dream, 

35 Not far indeed, close, at our need 

36 Thou waitest to redeem. 

3'^ Jesus, my Savior, 

38 For me alone a Word 

39 Voiceless from the beginning waits 
^0 Love's fealty averred. 

41 Lo, Thou art mine as I am Thine, 

42 By Love's great impulse stirred. 



Line 33. But had certain questions against him of their own su- 
perstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom 
Paul affirmed to be alive.—Acts 25: 19; Acts 5: 30. 

Line 35. That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel 
after him and find him, though he be not far from 
every one of us.— Acts 17: 27; Rev. 3: 20, 21. 

Line 38. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 
manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone 
a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he 
that receiveth it. — Rev. 2: 17. 

Line 40. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all 
things that himself doeth : and he will shew him greater 
works than these, that ye may marvel. 
For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth 
them ; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. — John 
5: 20, 21; John 6: 44. 

Line 41. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my 
love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, 
and abide in his love. — John 15: 10. 

Line 42. Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, 
he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, 
and we will come unto him, and make our abode with 
him.— John 14: 23. 

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43 

44 
45 
46 

47 
48 



Jesus, my Savior, 

Who lifteth me to be 
Of God a part, e'en as Thou art 

Throughout eternity ; 
Lo, " to the end " Thou dost befriend 

The wakened consciously. 



Line 44. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all 
men unto me. — John 12: 32; John 3: 14. 

Line 45. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, 
and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the 
world may believe that thou hast sent me. 
I in them and thou in me, that they may be made per- 
fect in one.— John 17: 21, 23; John 8: 28. 

Line 47. Now when Jesus knew that his hour was come that 
he should depart out of this world unto the Father, 
having loved his own which were in the world, he loved 
them unto the end. — John 13: 1. 

Lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the world. 
—Matt. 28: 20. 

Line 48. Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord 
doth come. 

Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye 
think net the Son of man cometh. — Matt. 24: 42, 44; 
Hab. 2: 3. 

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Since God so loved the world He gave His Son, 
That none might perish and that all might live, 

Let us, the well beloved, every one 

Through our reception of the kinship, give. 



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The Kingdom of Heaven 



ON THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN 

What is the Kingdom of Heaven? 

Where is it situate? 

And to whom does it belong? 

These three questions are asked by every one who 
seeks an understanding of the Gospel. They are as 
readily answered as asked. 

Christ said : " Whereunto shall we liken the King- 
dom of God? It is as if a man should cast seed in- 
to the ground, and should sleep and rise night and 
day and the seed should spring and grow up, he 
knoweth not how." 

Even so this Kingdom cometh to light in the 
darkness of our ignorance. The seeds of the spiritual 
thought cast into the ground of our material con- 
dition spring and grow up, we know not how, and 
gradually awaken within us a perception of the 
force and majesty of the spiritual law underlying 
the words of the Bible. And, lo, the words that we 
have listened to heedlessly all our lives become in- 
stinct with meaning, and, like one of old, we " esteem 
the words of His mouth more than our necessary 
food " ; because these words are our necessary food, 
our spiritual food, that shall sustain and energize 
us when these bodies shall have passed away, away 
with the heaven and the earth devoted by the Master 
who promised that, "My words shall not pass away." 

O friends, let us give some time each day to a 
realization of what it is that shall not pass away. 

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Our ambitions, our worldly plans for advancement 
and recognition, the things that constitute such a 
large part of our lives, all these things go down 
with our bodies into the ground. 

The only things that are immortal are these words 
of the Christ, and our perception of their truth. 

Early in Matthew's Gospel we are told : " From 
that time Jesus began to preach and to say : Repent, 
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." 

What is the Kingdom of Heaven? We are told 
what it is like. Over and over again, to His dis- 
ciples and the multitudes, does Christ liken this 
Kingdom to things that the mere human mind can 
understand. 

He likens it to men and women, to certain kings 
and wise virgins, to things of earth, and to a net 
that was cast into the sea. He likens it to leaven 
that a woman took and hid in three measures of 
meal until the whole was leavened, and as our per- 
ception expands do we receive more and more of 
this leaven of the Kingdom through the three 
measures of our mortal, rational and spiritual minds. 
He likens it to treasure hid in a field ; to a merchant- 
man seeking goodly pearls; to a certain king who 
forgave his servant his debt ; to another king who 
made a marriage for his son. 

In each and all of these parables, as our desire 
for understanding strengthens, do we find strong 
and hitherto unsuspected analogies. But to me, the 
best, yet most pathetic, likening is that of the King- 
dom of Heaven unto a man that is a householder. 

O lonely Wanderer amid Judean hills and wilder- 
nesses, O Man who had not where to lay His head ! 
what knowest Thou of householders, bringing forth 
of their treasures things new and old? 

Nineteen hundred years from these sayings of 
the Christ do we, who are householders, rejoice at 

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this likening of the Kingdom to ourselves. As the 
old truths become plain to our new understanding 
of them, do we enter into the Kingdom. 

Where is the Kingdom of Heaven? There need 
be no uncertainty about the location of this spiritual 
state. The Kingdom is compared, or " likened," to 
many things, but only once does Christ give its lo- 
cality. 

" The Kingdom of God cometh not with observa- 
tion," he remarks, " neither shall they say Lo here, 
or lo there, for, behold, the Kingdom of God is with- 
in you." 

Whose is the Kingdom? First in the beatitudes 
are those possessing it. 

" Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the 
Kingdom of Heaven." 

Not to be theirs in some distant period — here and 
now, in full possession do they dwell, " blessed," 
because through poverty of pride they apprehend 
the meaning of the Kingdom of God, which, other- 
wise, passeth all understanding. 



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THE FORCING OF THE KINGDOM 

1 The Violent, the Violent, by force the King- 

dom take — 

2 Kingdom above, surrounding Life — 
^ Earth's fetters strong they break. 

* Kingdom of Light, Kingdom of Love, 

^ With strong desire they win, 

^ The Violent, who struggle up 

'^ From earth and flesh and sin. 

8 The Violent, the Violent, struggle 'gainst 

pleasure's snare, 

9 Against World's charm, against World's 

wrong, 
^•^ The Kingdom's peace to share. 



Line 1. The kingdom of lieaven siiffereth violence, and tlie violent 
talie it by force.— Matt. 11: 12. 

Line 2. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 
Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre- 
pared for you from the foundation of the world. — Matt. 
25: 34; Dan. 2: 44; John 18: 36. 

Line 3. Whose feet thev hurt with fetters ; he was laid in iron. 
Psa. 105: 18. 

Line 4. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath 
appointed unto me. — Luke 22: 29. 

Line 5. The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of 
the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. — 
Luke 17: 22; Luke 22: 15. 

Line 9. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: 
but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen 
you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. — 
John 15: 19; John 17: 14. 

Line 10. The Law and the prophets were until John: since that 
time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man 
presseth unto it. — Luke 16: 16. 

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11 Armored with might and armed with power, 

12 Victors o'er Death and Pain, 

13 The Violent assault, that they 
1* With Love their God may reign. 

15 The Violent, the Violent, soiled with the 

struggle fell, 
1^ Shall overcome, shall batter down and force 

the citadel, 
1" Shall enter in the outer court and, kneeling 

humbly, wait, 
1^ The spoken Word when Christ above shall 

utter the mandate — 
1^ " Lo even as I overcame, shall these, my own, 

with me 
20 The captured Kingdom enter in and share its 

mystery." 



Line 11. Then conieth the end, when he shall have delivered up 
the kingdom to God. even the Father; when he shall 
have pnt down all rule and all authority and power. — 
1 Cor. 15: 25. 

liine 12. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under 
his feet.— 1 Cor. 15: 25, 26. 

Line 14. And I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the 
Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came 
to the Ancient of davs. and they brought him near be- 
fore him.— Dan. 7: 13, 14. 

Line IT. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the 
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the 
people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is 
an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve 
and obey him. — Dan. 7: 27. 

Line 19. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in 
my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down 
with my Father in his throne. — Rev. 3: 21; Rev. 21: 7. 

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THE OVERLORD 

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. — Job 37: 23. 

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no 
man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see. 
—1 Timothy 6: 16. 

1 What is the God Almighty 
^ Writ of in Scripture phrase, 

^ Uttered by seer and poet, 
* Ancient of thought and days? 

^ What He was Bibles tell us, 
^ Creature of force and whim, 

'^ Manlike, repentant, jealous, 
^ What do we know of Him? 

^ What is our God Almighty, 
^^ Is He many or one? 

11 Lurking near in the shadow, 

12 Shining far in the sun. 



Line 1. The Lord appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, I 
am the Almighty God ; Walk before me, and be thou 
perfect. — Gen. 17: 1. 

Line 2. I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, 
by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jeho- 
vah was I not known to them. — Ex. 6: 3. 

Line 3. He hath said, which heard the words of God, which 
saw the vision of the Almighty falling into a trance, 
but having his eyes open. — Numbers 24: 4; Job 37: 23; 
Dan. 7: 9. 

Line 7. For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the 
iniquity of the father upon the children unto the third 
and fourth generation of them that hate me. — Ex. 20: 5. 

Line 11. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High 
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — Psa. 91: 

Line 12. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of right- 
eousness arise with healing in his wings. — Mai. 4:2; Eph. 
5: 14; 2 Pet. 1: 19. 

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^^ Prisoned where miners labor, 

^■* Mocking the sunlit air, 

^^ Where is His habitation, 

1^ What is our God, and where? 

^'^ Bound by the guinea's girdle, 

^^ Hid in its golden light, 

1^ Many a " God before Him " 

2^ Dazzles the human sight. 

21 What is God as we find Him? 

22 Concept the years disclose, 

23 Not what He was at thirty — 

2* E'en as we change He grows. 

25 Wiser, kinder at fifty, 

26 



Better at threescore ten, 
2^ What is the God who made us 
Unto the earth-bound men? 



28 



29 What is our God Almighty — 

^^ Growing as mind expands, 

21 Needing nor form nor feature, 

22 Body, nor feet nor hands? 



Line 15. Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the 
place where thine honour dwelleth.— Psa. 26: 8; Eph. 2: 
22. 

Line 19. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. — Ex. 2: 3. 

Line 27. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth — 
So God created man in his own image; in the image of 
God created he him : male and female created he them. — 
Gen. 1: 1, 27. 

Line 32. And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under 
his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone. — 
Ex. 24: 10. 



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2^ Known as Love grows to being 
^* In the tried human heart, 

2^ Reached as the beaten senses 
^^ Slink from the will apart. 

^'^ Found as the Best, the Only, 

^^ Sharing with man Love's need — 

^^ This is the God Almighty, 

^^ Torn from a time worn creed. 

^1 Patient beyond conceiving, 
42 Waiting long for His own, 

4^ Shrined in man's answering spirit 
44 Is his Creator known. 



Line 33. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made per- 
fect in one ; and that the world may know that thon hast 
sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.^ 
John 17: 23; Col. 3: 14. 

Line 41. Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the 
Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious 
fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it. until 
he receive the early and latter rain. — Jas. 5: 7, 8. 

Line 42. Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the ever- 
lasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the 
earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no search- 
ing of his understanding. — Isa. 40: 28, 31. 

Line 44. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and 
ye in me, and I in you. — John 14 : 20. 

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TENSE 
" God is Conscious Mind. 

^ God is Conscious Mind. 

2 While I laughed or wept, 

^ Scorned, or sought to find, 

^ God the vigil kept. 

^ God was not inept, 

® Only I was blind. 

"^ God and I are one. 

^ As I come into 

^ Consciousness is done 
^^ Miracle anew : 

^^ Perfected and true, 

^2 Other there is none. 



Line 3. If we believe not, yet he abidetli faithful; he cannot deny 
himself.— 2 Tim. 2: 1.3. 

Line 7. I and my Father are one. — John 10: 30. 

Line 11. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in 
heaven is perfect. — Matt. 5: 48. 

Line 12. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. — Ex. 20: 3. 

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COMPREHENSION 

^ How many times do we praise God, 

2 For the mere sake 

3 Of praising Him? Stand forth, my soul, 
^ And answer make. 

^ How many times a day, how oft 
^ Within the year, 

^ Rejoice we in the perfect love 
^ That knows no fear? 

^ Not thanking Him for blessings shown, 
I'' Not asking more 

^^ Than has been freely granted from 
1" His boundless store — 

1^ But praising Him, apart from all 
^^ We ask or feel — 

^^ Mere recognition of the love 
^^ That yearns to heal. 

^'^ How often, soul, do we respond 

1^ To this that yearns 

1^ For understanding, till in us 

20 The thought-flame burns? 

21 Till something in us comprehends 

22 His thought, and strains 

23 To meet it heedless of delays, 
2* Of joys and pains? 



Line 7. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: 
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made 
perfect in love. — 1 John 4: 18. 

Line 23. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the 
end, it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry w^ait for 
it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. — Heb. 
2: 3; Psa. 27: 14. 



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25 If once, in these our lives, we know 

2^ The answering thought, 

2"^ Within our souls God's miracle 

28 Of love is wrought. 

29 Nor need we thenceforth offer praise, 
^^ Nor God command, 

^1 For we, in love, are always that 
^2 We understand. 



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RECIPROCITY 

1 Through the struggle and the waiting, 

2 Through the hoping, fearing, hating 
^ Of the darkened earth conditions 

4 This, O Master, is my creed; 

^ By my own heart's hungry showing 

6 I believe, while yet unknowing, 

'^ Thou hast need that I prove noble, 
'^ And I answer to Thy need. 

9 I am worthy — I the equal, 

^^ In the great Plan's length'ning sequel, 

11 Of the coming Prince victorious, 

12 Trusted from creation's start, 
1^ Though my only aid comprises 

1* The sad strength that slowly rises 

15 From the vanquished in the struggle, 
I'' And the broken, contrite heart. 

1'^ Day by day the sun uprising 

1^ Shines upon the hosts comprising 

1^ The victorious in the struggle, 

20 And the gainers of the race ; 

21 While by night the moonbeams languish 

22 O'er the captives in their anguish, 

23 O'er the failures — but I fear not 

24 Vanquished — victors — either place. 



Line 11. For unto ns a child is born, unto lis a son is given: and 
tlie government 'shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty 
God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. — Isa. 
9: 6. 

Line 12. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the Word was God. — John 1 : 1, 14. 

Line 16. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; 
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. — Psa. 34: 18; 
Psa. 51: 17; Isa. 57: 15. 

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25 O my Master, O my Master! 

2^ Thy great purpose, slow or faster 

^" In the Universe' unfoldment, 

-^ Is my hour triumphant, too ! 

2^ Lying bruised upon the highway, 

^^ Or o'erlooked within the byway, 

^^ My submission is Thy strength'ning; 

^2 Through my aid Thy worlds renew. 

33 When that hour shall strike no man knows, 

3^ Not the leaders of commandoes, 

^5 Not the captains of divisions, 

3^ Not the Prince that leads us all. 

^"^ Why then should I fear, I only 

^^ From the hosts, apart and lonely, 

^^ Should not hear the sound stupendous 

^^ When the whole world's fetters fall? 

" But the meed, O God, the token 

^^ That awaits the mute, unspoken 

^^ Trust that waits nor asks conditions — 

** Such a trust is equal power! 

45 Thou and I shalt share the guerdon, 

4^ Thou the knowledge, I the burden, 

4" A like nobleness endues us 

4^ Till the coming of the hour. 



Line 33. Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord 
doth come.— Matt. 24: 42, 44; Mark 13: 33, 35, 37. 

Line 36. Jesus Christ, who is the faitliful witness, and the first be- 
gotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the 
earth.— Rev. 1:5; Acts 5: 31. 



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*^ Is it like, or is one greater? 

^^ One the creature, one Creator, 

^1 One has knowledge, one has patience, 

^2 Has one more, the other less? 

^* Master, I cognize Thy Spirit, 

^* Grow thus worthy to inherit 

^^ In Thy Plan — we love and labor 

^^ And our mutual need confess. 



Line 53. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for 
the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of 
God.— 1 Cor. 2: 10, 11; John 3: 5, 6; Acts 2: 17. 



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11 

12 

13 
14 
15 



DEITY 

^ Two Gods there are : One dwells afar, 

2 The heavens His power approve; 

^ The creeds say one, but two there are, 

* And one we reach through Love. 

^ Our choice have we of Deity, 

^ One could do, if He would, 

" And One, with help from you and me, 

^ From evil worketh good. 

^ The Great God started things, of course, 
^^ The Great God of Desire, 

Necessity and Law and Force, 
And then began to tire. 

He made a good start, all agree 

His plan was good, and then 
He turned to make the worlds we see, 
^^ And left this world to men. 

1'^ And many thousands worship Him ; 
1^ They take the laws He made 

^^ And turn them to their purpose grim 
20 And hate, and grow afraid. 



Line 2. The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the firmament 
sheweth his handy work. — Psa. 19: 1; Psa. 8: 3, 4. 

Line 5. Choose ye this day whom ye will 'serve — but as for me 
and my house, we will serve the Lord. — Jas. 24: 15. 

Line 12. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the 
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. — Gen. 6: 6. 

Line 14. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold 
it was very good, and the evening and the morning were 
the sixth day.— Gen. 1: 31. 

Line 16. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, 
which the children of men builded. — Gen. 11: 5; Gen. 18: 
21. 

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21 And still they say God knoweth all 

22 And can do everything. 

23 He could avert what doth befall 

24 Of w^oe and suffering. 

25 ** Were this not so He were not God, 

26 We must have one who can " ; 

2''' So run the creeds, while, all unshod, 

28 Among the flints walks man. 

29 " Better an Abstract Power than one 

30 Who would avert despair. 

31 Omnipotent our God, or none," 

32 The blind and lame declare. 

*3 He is the God of force and war, 

34 The sword declares His might. 

35 The horrors that mankind abhor 

36 Fret not this Ruler's sight. 

37 From man's great needs of life and soul 

38 Arose the God I know. 

39 Not yet has He obtained control, 
^^ But He is doing so. 



Ijine 27. WithlioUl thy foot from being unshod and thy throat 
from thirst — but thou saidst " Tliere is no liope." — Jer. 2: 
25. 

Line 33. Te shall not fear them, for the Lord your God he shall 
fight for you.— Deut. 3: 22; Deut. 20: 3, 4. 

Line 39. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars ; see 
that ye be not troubled : for all these things must come 
to pass, but the eud is not yet. — Matt. 24: 6. 



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^1 And every time a man turns back 

*2 From self's engrossing plan, 

43 And strives to fill the Good God's lack, 

4* And help his fellow-man — 

45 The day is nearer when, on earth, 

46 The lesser Ruler will 

^■^ The law of Love's sufficing worth 

48 For all mankind fulfil. 

49 Jehovah, God, Omnipotent, 
^^ Heeds not man's misery. 

51 But One there is whom Love hath lent 

52 A certain Majesty. 

53 The churchman's God is Great, Above — 

54 I ne'er may know His power — 

55 But mine, I understand and love 

56 And work with every hour. 

5" Some day — when yours and mine combine 

58 Love's guidance to express — 

59 A waiting world, with sway benign, 

60 The God-Man's reign shall bless. 



Line 51. Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the 
hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may 
glorify thee.— John 17: 1; John 18: 36, 37. 

Line 56. Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I 
work.— John 5: 17; John 9:4; John 14: 12. 

Line 60. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying. Behold 
the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with 
them, and they 'shall be his people, and God himself 
shall be with them, and be their God. — Rev. 21: 3. 



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FEALTY 

We grudge the days, we grudge the years 
That rend the veil of self apart 
Between us and the Master's heart; 

We grudge the tasking and the tears, 

Until the human can discern 

Within life's hindrances the scope 

Of God's great, patient, asking hope. 

And then, with pride that we are worth 
His thought, we render as we can 
Back to our God His faith in man. 

And strive anew His will to learn. 

We grope, amid life's mystery 

For that which strives to fill our need. 
For that which yearns that we be freed. 
Then, since in spirit we agree, 
What are the years that serve to break 
The fetters from the yearning soul? 
What are the parts to God — the Whole? 
Since we are worthy when we know 
The plan, in God we trust, and lo, 
He answers us for Love's own sake. 



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THE PHARISEE 

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank 
thee that I am not as other men are. — Luke 18: 11. 

I thank Thee, Lord, that I am not 

As other men, whose Hves fulfil 

Their destiny, nor well, nor ill, 
But tamely prove a common lot. 

I thank Thee for the power to turn 
From Sin's domain the passions rude 
That try the heart, until for good 

Their utmost strength alone may yearn. 

I thank Thee for the restlessness 
That drives me on, without reprieve; 
I thank Thee that no more I grieve 

For low contentment's listlessness. 

I thank Thee for the keen desire 

To search Thy laws, that fills my breast; 
For truth, that lies all unexpressed 

Save to the minds that do not tire. 

I thank Thee even for all loss. 
All bitterness, that proved at length 
Unto the life a source of strength 

To separate it from World's dross: 

And that, through bars of flesh and sense 
That bind the soul, I feel and know 
Thy love's revealment, even though 

They mar its larger consequence. 

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I thank Thee, Lord, for all these things. 
For my life's lot, for others' good, 
For rest denied and peace withstood, 

For all that clearer knowledge brings. 

For this identity, that strives 
At variance with what surrounds 
The narrow circle of its bounds, 

I thank Thee, while it yet survives. 



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10 



SOUL CRAVING 

1 If there were but one, we say softly, 

2 One other to know 

^ The weight of the burden that Hving 
^ To each soul doth show — 

^ If there were but one to know fully 
^ The days as they grow ! 

^ When God said : " Let light be," it shone forth 

^ His mandate to greet, 

^ Revealing all forms of creation. 

The strong and the sweet, 

11 Man only, the shade of his Maker, 
1- Was left incomplete. 

1'^ The flowers and the fruits and the seasons, 

1^ Ungifted with will, 

1^ Bloom on as at first, all Law's order 

1^ And grace to fulfil ; 

1^ The thought of the human, that only, 

1^ Brings grief with it still. 

1^ Lo, everything finished, completed, 

20 Seen good of its kind, 

21 Save only the thinking incarnate, 

22 Man's spirit and mind, 

23 Which ever the walls of its dwelling 

24 So hinder and bind. 



Line 7. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. — 
Gen. 1: 3. 

Line 11. And God said, Let ns make man in our image after our 
likeness.— Gen. 1 : 26. 

Line 20. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold 
it was very good. And the evening and the morning 
were the sixth day. — Gen. 1 : 31. 

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25 This thing that the old Scriptures tell us 

26 Is false, that our God 

2'^ Is jealous of progress, and renders 

28 The way we have trod 

29 So thorny, because the true knowledge 
^^ Would lighten His rod. 

31 Ah, no! with the old days have vanished 

32 The fear and the dread 

33 Of Man-God, made fiercer and larger 
3* And placed overhead 

35 To threaten and torture. The Tyrant 

36 Men worshiped is dead. 

3'^ As one who, born blind, has been granted 

38 The sight never known, 

39 Might strive in the black of the midnight 

40 To image the sun, 

41 So we in the darkness of Nature 

42 The vision have won. 



Line 27. And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as 
one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put 
forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat 
and live forever — Therefore the Lord God sent him 
forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from 
whence he was taken. — Gen. 3: 22. 

Line 29. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee. — 
Gen. 3: 18. 



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^^ And yet, till the dawn, we have only 

^* A new, useless sense, 

^^ And still do the blind call the vision 

'^^ An idle pretense, 

*^ And tread the ditched circle that never 

^^ Leads outward from thence. 

^^ From Life's incompletion is proved 

^^ The only mistake 

^^ That throughout the chain of creation 

5- God's wisdom doth make, 

5^ Or else, that a progress unending 

^* Exists for its sake. 

5^ The soul, growing stronger, casts ever 

^^ A deepening shade, 

^'^ We see this alone and we tremble 

5^ Within it, afraid, 

^^ Nor heed that the form of the substance 

^'^ The shadow has made. 



Line 47. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the 
ditch.— Matt. 15: 14. 



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WHEN FROM MATTER'S GRASPING 
CLUTCH 

^ When from Matter's grasping clutch 

2 I can raise my soul — 

^ Stricken by Necessity 

^ Almost past control — 

^ Some day, what my soul is worth 

^ I to God shall pay, 

'^ Through the travail of the years, 

^ And the law's delay. 

^ In a moment I shall know 

^^ What God strove to teach 

11 Through a thousand weary years 

1^ Of ancestral speech. 

1^ In the twinkling of an eye 

1* Changed shall all things be, 

15 When from Matter's grasping clutch 

1^ Is my soul set free. 

1'^ Slowly, from the strife of things, 

1^ I shall gain at length 

1^ What God asks of me of love, 
What He needs of strength. 



20 



Line 1. Thon which liast shewed me great and sore troubles, 
.Shalt quicken me again, and 'shalt bring me up again 
from the depths of the earth.— Psa. 71: 20; Psa. 130: 1. 

Line 7. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one 
day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thou- 
sand years as one day. — 2 Pet. 3: 8. 

Line 8. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall 
in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. — Matt. 
5: 18. 

Line 13. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
trump; for the trumpet shall 'sound, and the dead shall 
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. — 1 Cor. 
15: 52. 

Line 20. Ascribe ye strength unto God ; his excellency is over 
Israel and his strength is in the clouds. — Psa. 68: 34, 35; 
2 Cor. 12: 9. 

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21 Down among the hells again 

22 I will wend my way, 

2^ Great enough to rise aloft, 
2^ Strong enough to stay. 

25 Freed from Matter's grasping clutch, 
2^ From its joys and pains — 

2'^ Hell's restriction ended proved, 
2^ God alone remains. 



Line 21. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make 
my bed in hell, behold thou art there. — Psa. 139: 8; Psa. 
86: 13; Psa. 16: 10. 

Line 23. The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart 
from hell beneath. — Prov. 15 : 24. 

Line 27. It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper 
than hell; what canst thou know? 

Canst thou by 'searching find out God? Canst thou find 
out the Almighty unto perfection? — Job 11: 8, 7. 

Line 28. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I 
flee from thy presence? — Psa. 139: 7, 9, 10. 



139 



NECESSITY 

1 That God should love my soul, sin scarred 

and stained 

2 With all uncleanness, seems a blasphemy 
2 For lips to utter or for heart to hope, 

^ Remembering its evil horoscope, 

^ And what of truth its vision hath attained. 
^ And yet, all evil, suffering, above, 

■^ As mine for light, God's need is felt for 

Love. 



Line 1. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life. — John 3: 16. 

Line 7. We love him because he first loved us. — 1 John 4: 19. 

140 



AFTER THIS MANNER 

After this manner therefore pray ye. — Matt. 6: 9. 

1 Forgive me, O Thou Unknown God ! to whom 

2 I call when whelmed by Life's vast dis- 

tress — 

^ Forgive my sin, my shame, my hope, my pas- 
sion — all 

■* I know of bitterness. 

^ Forgive me, that I cannot understand 
6 While writhing in the flame the glory far — 

'^ Forgive, as I forgive Thy purpose grand, 
^ Whence worlds and atoms are. 

^ Forgive me, O Creative Thought, and vast, 

10 Forgive! as coming centuries evolve 

^^ An answer, this faint, worthless shadow cast 

^2 Of what Thou shalt approve. 



Line 7. And forgive lis our debts as we forgive our debtors. — 
Matt. 6: 12. 

Line 8. And God made two great lights; the greater light to 
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he 
made the stars also. — Gen. 1 : 17. 

Line 10. Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet 
appear what we shall be.— 1 John 3: 2. 



141 



Communion 



Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? 
let him sing psalms. — James 5: 13. 

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, 
that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a right- 
eous man availeth much. — James 5: 16. 



EXCUDIT 

1 O Nazarite, the lesson of whose Hfe 

2 Men vainly read ! what of Thy purposed 

plan? 
^ What word is Thine amid earth's Babel strife? 
^ What hast Thou brought to man? 

^ "I am the Way — the path My feet have trod 
^ Thy feet must tread if thou wouldest win to 
God. 

"^ "I am the Truth — thy sin I may not bear 
^ And still be Truth — thy wrong I may not 
share. 

^ "I am the Life — who would immortal be 
1" Must conquer sin and follow after Me. 

11 " Men come not to the Kingdom till they learn 

12 Through Me the Way immortal to discern." 

13 O Nazarite, whom creeds have failed to teach, 

14 If sin Thou canst not bear, for others' good, 
1^ Speak yet again, in words of human speech, 
1^ What must be understood. 



Line 5. Jesus saith unto him, I am tlie way, tlie truth, and the 
life.— John 14: 6. 

Line 6. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come 
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, 
and follow me.— Matt. 16: 24; Matt. 10: 38; Luke 14: 27; 
Acts 14: 22; 2 Tim. 3: 12. 

Line 7. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the 
truth, why do ye not believe me? — John 8: 46, 40. 

Line 9. I am the door: by me if any man enter in he shall be 
saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. — John 
10: 9; John 3: 13. 

Line 11. Jesus answered. My kingdom is not of this world. — John 
18: 36; Dan. 2 : 44 ; Dan. 7: 14; Matt. 4: 23; Matt. 25: 34; 
Luke 12: 32. 

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17 " I am the Vine through which the branches 

live, 
1^ And we are one with God who freely give. 

19 " I of Myself can nothing do, men heard 

20 Wrongly the echo of My spoken Word." 

21 O Nazarite, if Thine the words I hear, 

22 Thou didst but dwell on earth mankind 

to show 

23 A path of thorns, and shadowed o'er with 

fear, 

24 That we must tread and know. 

25 Reversed the promise of a saving grace — 

26 And yet, O Christ of God, 

2'^ O Thou who hadst no certain dwelling place 
28 The while earth's flints were trod! 



29 Prefiguration of what life must be, 

20 And victor o'er the grave, 

21 Roused from the ages' dream, we ofifer Thee 

22 The selves Thou canst not save. 



Line 17. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in 
me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; 
for without me ye can do nothing. — John 15: 5. 

Line 18. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and or- 
dained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, 
and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye 
shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 
—John 15: 16. 

Line 19. I can of mine own self do nothing. — John 5: 30. 

Line 20. But as mv Father hath taught me, I speak these things. 
John 8: 28. 

Line 27. And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds 
of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where 
to lay his head. — Luke 9: 58. 

Line 30. O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy vic- 
tory? 

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory 
through our Lord Jesus Christ. — 1 Cor. 15: 55, 57. 

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YEARNING 

^ If I did not want you, what knowledge 

2 Of Love through earth's ways could you 

know? 
^ If I were not first, what revealing 
* Of that which abides could earth show? 

^ If you did not want Me, what power 

^ Were Mine for creation to see? 

'^ I am, and you have been, and always, 

^ Because of this law, we shall be. 



Line 4. But they constrained liim, saying, Abide witli us: for it 
is toward evening and the day is far spent. And he 
went in to tarry with them. — Luke 24 : 29. 

Line 7. And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he 
said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 
I AM hath sent me unto you. — Ex. 3 : 14. 



147 



RESURGENCE 

1 Within my heart be born this day, 

2 O Jesus Christ of Calvary, 

2 Grant unto me the birth-pang's throe ! 

^ Throughout the ages men have found 

s In Thee a name to conjure sound 

^ That, hearing thus, they might not know: 

'^ And seeing but the shadow cast 

^ Of a long vanished, radiant past, 

9 Feel not Thy life in theirs begun. 

1^ Give me, O Christ, the spirit's blood, 

11 Transfig'ring all my dross to good, 

12 'Pill Thou and I in God be one! 

1^ Within my body's tomb, unknown 

1^ As yet, oh, let Thy life be shown, 

1^ Break Thou its bars and rise again ! 

1^ That I, transformed to Thee, may teach 

i"* This understanding through my speech 

1^ Whene'er I greet my fellow-men. 



Line 2. One is your Master, even Clirist; and all ye are brethren. 
—Matt. 23: 8. 

Line 10. This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed 
for many for the remission of sins. — Matt. 26: 28. 

Line 12. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and 
ye in me, and I in you. — John 14: 20; John 10: 30. 

Line 14. I beseech you therefore, brethren, that ye present your 
bodies a living- sacrifice, holy, acceptable, unto God, 
which is your reasonable service. — Rom. 12: 1. 

Line 17. The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: 
but the Father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works. 
—John 14: 10. 

148 . 



COMPENSATION 

^ My love is scorned, so was Thy love, my 

Master; 
2 The heart grows sure ; 

^ Beyond earth's scorning, and past death's 

disaster 
^ Love shall endure. 

^ Amid beatitudes undreampt of mortals 

^ In worlds above, 

'^ I may attain life only through the portals 

^ And power of Love. 



Line 1. Behold the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall 
be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me 
alone.— John 16: 32; John 11: 53; John 7: 52; Luke 22: 
64. 

Line 4. He that loveth not l^noweth not God ; for God is love. — 
1 John 4: 8. 

Line 5. Eye hatli not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered 
into the heart of man, the things which God hath pre- 
pared for them that love him. — 1 Cor. 2: 9. 

Line 8. And we have Itnown and believed the love that God hath 
to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwell- 
eth in God and God in him. — 1 John 4: 16. 



149 



LORD, FORGIVE THE SLUMBER DEEP 

Lord, forgive the slumber deep 
That wrapt my soul and held my eyes 
When Thou, from near-by paradise 

Down stooping, blessed me in my sleep ; 
For, though I dreamed, the dream alone 
Was hope Thy vision to be shown. 

Lord, forgive the slumber deep 
That held my soul from consciousness 
As, smiling at my dream's distress. 

Thou whispered to me in my sleep ; 
For, though I neither saw nor heard, 
Yet vibrant Love my slumber stirred. 



150 



THE COMFORTER 

^ The days when I do not hear Thee 
2 Within my calendar, 

^ Are lost days, whatsoe'er may chance 
* Upon them to occur. 

^ The day that I am not shaken 
^ By Thy creating breath, 

" Or fail to draw Thee in my life, 
^ Beholds my living death. 

^ The day that I am not folded 
'^^ An instant to Thy heart, 

^^ I wander, lost, in outer worlds 
'- No part of which Thou art. 

^^ When not by the sweep uplifted 
^"^ Of Thy on-rushing wings, 

15 I hear no murm'ring answer blown 
i" To all my questionings 



Line 1. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the 
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
things, and bring all things to your remembrance what- 
soever I have said unto you. — John 14: 26. 

Line 5. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a 
rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where 
they were sitting. — Acts 2 : 2. 

Line 9. I will not leave you comfortless : I will come to you. — 
John 14: 18. 

Line 11. I have given them thy word; and the World hath hated 
them, because they are not of the World, even as I am 
not of the World.— John 17: 14. 

Line 15. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the 
sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and 
whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the 
Spirit.— John 3: 8. 

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1'^ Give me an hour in the morning, 
1^ And I will make the rest 

19 Of the hours Thy day, O Master, 

20 By me and mine confessed. 

21 But I will not make equations 

22 Of Thine, my God, and mine, 

23 Nor ofifer all of this my life 

24 For any part of Thine. 

25 I cannot offer Thee of good 

26 What is not all Thine own, 

27 Nor tell Thee aught of knowledges 

28 That I have not been shown. 



29 How then can I make Thy power 

30 Augmented, Lord, through me? 

31 I know not, I may never know 

32 This "hidden" mystery— 

33 But all through my earthly body, 

34 And waiting soul, there flows 

35 Love's mighty impulse, urging back 

36 To God what Love bestows. 

3'^ Within the world, O Comforter, 

38 While its great winds go by, 

39 I stand, unseeking in their whirl, 
Thy message to descry : 



40 



Line 17. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto 
you from the Fatlier, even the Spirit of truth, which pro- 
ceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. — John 
15: 26. 

Line 27. Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those 
that are high.— Job 21: 22. 

Line 32. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the 
hidden wisdom which God ordained before the World 
unto our glory. — 1 Cor. 2: 7; Eph. 3:5; Col. 1: 26. 

Line 38. Daniel spake and 'said, I saw in my vision by night, and 
behold the four winds of the heaven strove upon the 
great sea.— Dan. 7:2; Rev. 7: 1. 



152 



4^ Nor fear with an unblinded gaze 

^2 The red temptation's fire, 

^2 Gaining- from it a captured force 

** To use toward Thy desire. 

^5 Not in the whirlwind or the fire 

^^ Shall aught of Thee be found, 

^'^ But in the still small voice yet breathes 

^^ The everlasting sound. 

^^ Leave me not, my God, " forsaken," 

^0 Like Christ upon the tree ; 

^1 I cannot die, O Comforter, 

^2 Nor live, apart from Thee ! 



Line 45. A great and strong wind rent the mountains, and bralie 
in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was 
not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but 
the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the 
earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and 
after the fire a still small voice. — 1 Kings 19: 11, 12. 

Line 49. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 
My God, my God, Why hast thou forsaken me? — Matt. 27: 
46. 



153 



MY OWN PLACE 

^ My own place, my own place, 

^ No other one may know 

3 The shelter of the Spirit 

* When to its peace I go. 

^ It passeth understanding, 

•^ No other one can see 

^ The place where I inherit 

^ What God prepares for me. 

^ My own place, my own place, 

^^ It may be on the street, 

^^ Where men walk close beside me, 

^2 Or in some garden sweet, 

1^ Hid in the desert's fastness, 

1* Or out upon the sea — 

^^ No space enfolds my own place 

^^ Nor what it holds for me. 



Line 4. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, 
shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 
—Phil. 4: 7. 

Line 5. But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place 
of understanding?— Job 28: 12, 28. 

Line 10. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the 
place where thine honour dvvelleth. — Psa. 26: 8. 

Line 15. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold the 
heaven And heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how 
much less this house that I have builded. — 1 Kings 8: 



154 



1*^ My own place, my own place, 

18 God made it long before 

1^ Upon His path the central sun 

^^ Swung forth from heaven's door. 

21 When, like a scroll, is folded 

22 The starry galaxy, 

23 Unchanged will be my own place, 

24 Though nothing else there be. 



Line 18. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all 
the host of them by the breath of his mouth. — Psa. 33: 6. 

Line 19. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that 
can deliver out of my hand : I will work, and who shall 
let it?— Isa. 43: 13. 

Line 20. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self 
with the glory which I had with thee before the World 
was. — John 17: 5. 

Line 23. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from 
trouble.— Psa. 32: 7; Isa. 13: 12, 13. 



155 



PREVISION 

1 Within me is a darkness 

2 My Master calleth "great"; 
^ How can I leave this shadow 

^ While I am incarnate? 

^ Perhaps the shade's engulfing 

^ But guards us for His sight, 

'^ As only to our vision 

^ The stars shine in the night. 

^ If I might only see Him ! 

^^ If I were sure as He! 

1^ The darkness stirs and trembles ; 

12 Through my desire I see. 



Line 1. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, liow 
great is that darkness! — Matt. 6: 23. 

Line 12. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you. ye shall 
ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. — John 
15: 7. 



156 



ATONEMENT 

1 Thy Will, O Father, whom I feel 

2 Nor sense in any other way, 
^ This force mysterious reveal 

^ Through limitations of the clay. 

^ We seek Thy Will, O unknown God! 

^ We strive toward some purpose still, 

' Till, breaking" through earth's hindering clod, 

^ On flowering souls there shines Thy Will. 

^ Thy noiseless Will, on which the worlds 

1^ Like summer clouds float silently, 

1^ Thy ceaseless Will, that forward hurls 

^2 New worlds through its activity. 

1^ Thy Will, O God ! that ne'er began ; 

1* Etern its forces interplay ; 

1^ Reveal this power to us that man 

1^ No longer pause to grieve or pray. 



1"^ Forgiven all my sins of blood, 

^^ My trespasses condoned? Not so! 

^^ From evil's flaw breaks forth the good ; 

2° What aids my growth my soul must know. 



Line 1. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs; but the 
time Cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in 
proverbs, but I shall shew vou plainly of the Father. — • 
John 16: 25; Matt. 7: 21; Matt. 12: 50; Matt. 18: 14. 

Line 5. As I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an 
altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom 
therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 
—Acts 17: 23. 

Line 16. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of be- 
fore ye ask him. — Matt. 6: 8. 

Line 18. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly 
Father will also forgive you.— Matt. 6: 14, 15; Col. 2: 13. 

157 



21 There is no need God should forgive, 

22 Nor I, who through my suffering reach 

23 And grasp the plan by which I live: 

24 We understand Creation's speech. 

25 One purpose in the knowing God 

26 And growing Man, one hope to fill 
2'^ The starry hosts, till all abroad 

28 There moves nor Thine nor mine — but 

WILL. 



29 Thy Will, O Maker of mankind, 

30 Thy Will, not ours, be done below, 

31 As in the heavens the angels find 

32 One purpose and no other know. 

33 O happy angels, knowing all, 

34 Rejoice! for something beats thy gate, 

35 Won out from darkness, past recall, 

36 And freed from passion, fear and hate. 

3'^ Rejoice, rejoice! the strong men come, 

38 From battling doubts, temptation's thrill, 
Released all lesser good therefrom; 



39 



40 Regained Life's source, the Father's Will. 



Line 27. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of 
the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good 
will toward men. — Luke 2: 13, 14. 

Line 30. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is 
in heaven. — Matt. 6: 10. 

Line 33. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; 
for I say unto you. That in heaven their angels do always 
behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. — Matt. 
18: 10; Psa. 68: 17. 

Line 40. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, 
but the will of him that sent me.— John 6: 38, 39, 40. 

158 



IDENTITY 

^ Now that I know — as I in heaven 

2 Am to Thy purpose known, 

^ And through my hfe Thy spirit's leaven 

^ Reclaims me for Thy own — 

5 How can I tell some other one 

^ The things which God for me has done? 

"^ What have I gained, O God, my Father? 

^ Only the wish to end 

^ Pain's needless harvest that men gather 
1^ Without Thee for their Friend, 

^^ The strength to wait, to hear and teach 

^2 This strange " new word " to human speech. 

^^ What have I lost? A grasping sorrow, 
1^ Worlds could not satisfy; 

1^ An evil day, a dread tomorrow — 
1^ Held by such chains was I — 

^'^ Apart from these I am to Thee 

^^ Of use in Life's great symphony. 

^^ O waiting Love ! yet uncompleted, 
^^ Slowly mankind shall find 

21 An answering chord, through sin defeated, 

22 Within each human mind. 

23 O Power, that asks the human thought 
2* To be within Thy plan enwrought! 



Line 1. Now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as 
also I am known. — 1 Cor. 13: 12. 

Line 12. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 
manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone 
a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he 
that receiveth it.^Rev. 2: 17. 

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25 Not as earth's monarchs ask — a power 

26 Quelling to theirs man's will, 

2'^ That seeks through each despotic hour 

28 Glory yet greater still; 

29 O Tenderness ! Thy love's demand 
20 Is only that we understand. 

2^ We cannot hate, nor kill, nor languish 

22 Held in Love's purpose strong; 

22 Nor turn for self our brother's anguish 

24 And to Thy self belong. 

25 The love that gives, nor asks again 

26 Alone shall make Thee known to men. 



Line 31. Thou shalt not kill.— Ex. 20: 13, 16. 

Line 32. For this is the love of God, that we keep his command- 
ments ; and his commandments are not grievous. — 1 John 
5:3; Rom. 13: 10. 



160 



LIKE AS A FATHER 

^ Like as a father pitieth his children, 

2 Loving- and guiding- — helpless, too, to sho-vv 

^ The reason for the pity and the chiding 

^ Until the children grow, 

^ So the Lord pities those -who love and fear 

Him, 
^ Until the perfect love casteth out fear — 

'^ The children slowly apprehend, draw near 

Him, 
^ Until the Lord is here. 



Line 1. Like as a fatlier pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth 
them that fear him.— Psa. 103: 13. 

Line 6. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: 
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made 
perfect in love. — 1 John 4: 18. 

Line 8. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou 
Shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. — Isa. 58: 9. 



161 



THE POSSIBLE 

1 Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief; 

2 I can behold Thee only through the law 

^ Of my own hampered nature's fret and flaw, 

^ That I can call is much, such law beneath. 

^ I would be sure as Thou ! Help me today. 
^ Help Thou, Creative Thought, mine un- 

belief, 
" Until between us fall no tears of grief 

^ To cloud Thy truth, or hide the better way. 



Line 1. The father of the child cried out, and said with tears, 
Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. — Mark 9: 24. 



162 



THE PATHWAY 

^ God, let me live to do the little things 

2 That fashion what I hope to prove a road 
^ That leads to Thee, 

* Where, through eternity 
^ Thy cycles move. 

^ I know not where Thou art, 

'^ Nor how the road should trend, 

* But this I know, 

^ As farther through this shadow world I go, 

^^ Thou, who hast set my task 
11 Wilt prove my Friend. 



Line 2. I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I 
will make darkness light before them, and crooked things 
straight. These things will I do unto them, and not 
forsake them. — Isa. 42: 16. 

Line 6. Behold I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare 
the way before me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall 
suddenly come to his temple. — Mai. 3: 1. 



163 



FELLOWSHIP 

1 They did not love the Master, 

2 Who came to make all plain — 

^ The path that men should follow, 

^ The life that doth remain. 

^ Beelzebub, they called Him, 

^ What name is left that I 

'^ Should fear to hear the scoffers 

^ To one of His apply? 

^ O Man, despised, forsaken 

^^ In Thy most bitter need, 

1^ In sharing Thy earth sorrow 

12 I taste Thy cup indeed. 

1^ O God, enthroned, triumphant, 

1* When drawing all men up 

1^ Grant me the full partaking 

1^ Of Love's Communion Cup! 

1'^ O Elder Born, Thy spirit 

1^ I feel my own within! 

1^ Far distant from Thy power, 

20 Yet am I near of kin. 



Line 5. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, 
how much more shall they call them of his household? — 
Matt. 10: 25. 

Line 12. He prayed saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this 
cup pass from me.— Matt. 26: 39; Matt. 20: 22, 23. 

Line 14. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men 
unto me.— John 12: 32. 

Line 20. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of 
God.— 1 John 5: 1, 4; 1 John 3: 1, 2. 

164 



INCERTITUDE 

Did you think I would not go 
Where God planned for me, 

If the pathway I could know 
And direction see? 

Did you think I would not stand 

If God said the word, 
If I heard His voice command, 

If but once I heard? 



165 



UNDERSTANDING 

I have called you friends. — John 15: 15 

1 My own God, sought and yearned for, 

2 Not always does He send 
^ A blessing- on the struggle, 

* Nor all my ways defend. 

^ But through life's long denying, 

^ And through death's certain end, 

'^ I feel around, about me 

^ The presence of a Friend. 

^ My God unknown, demanded, 
^^ Not always will He hide 

11 From one who treads His footsteps, 

12 With Him is crucified ; 

1^ From one who loves the human, 
1* Aspires toward the Divine, 

1^ I move toward Him who waits me, 
1^ This Friend and God of mine. 



Line 1. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of 
men, to see if there were any that did understand and 
seek God.— Psa. 14: 2. 

Line 11. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come 
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross 
and follow me. — Matt. 16: 24. 

Line 12. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that 
the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we 
'should not serve sin. — Rom. 6: 6; 1 Cor. 2: 2. 



166 



RELATION 

^ Our Father in the heavens, 

2 So changed from the One 

3 Men knew in the beginning, 

■* When thought was but begun. 

^ Our Father, not our taskman, 
^ Our Kinsman, not our foe, 

'^ Slowly throughout the ages 
^ We come Thy Self to know. 

^ O Majesty Creative! 
1" Yet uncomplete until 

1^ Thy creatures' understanding 

12 Consents to work Thy W^ill— 

13 The catechists and schoolmen 

1* Have lived their hind'ring day- 

1^ In ministration's service 
1^ We find the heavenly way. 

'^'^ Not fashioned for Thy " glory," 
1^ Not molded to " enjoy 

1^ Forever " bliss and homage, 
20 But serve in Thy employ. 



Line 6. For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visitiugr the 
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third 
and fourth generation of them that hate me. — Ex. 20: 5. 

Line 15. Jesus answered him. If I wash thee not, thou hast no 
part with me. — John 13 : 8, 14, 15. 

Line 17. Thou art worthy. O Lord, to receive glory and honour 
and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy 
pleasure they are and were created. — Rev. 4: 11. 

Line 20. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that 
serveth ? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I come 
among you as he that serveth. — Luke 22: 27; Luke 12: 
37. 



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21 To serve Love's need our portion, 

22 To help Thy Plan our pride, 

23 Oh, sanctified the mission 

2* For which our Brother died! 

25 Our Father in the heavens, 

26 Thy children here below 
2'^ Await Thy full revealing, 

And toward Thy stature grow. 



28 



29 
30 



Thy truth we earnest seek it, 
Thy purpose makes our life, 

31 God, limited and hindered 

32 By Thy creation's strife. 

33 To love Thee and Thy purpose 

34 All other things above, 

35 To love and serve each other 
To live alone through Love — 



36 



3'^ Our Brother taught this Gospel, 



38 
39 



It was His only creed. 
Our Father in the heavens, 



40 It fills creation's need. 



Line 28. Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in 
heaven is perfect. — Matt. 5: 48. 

Line 29. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me. — John 
14: 6; John 10: 9. 



168 



CLAIRAUDIENCE 

1 The Kingdom that we journey through 

2 From birth to death we may not see ; 

3 " Not of this World " it is, though we 

^ Through this World's life its hope pursue. 

^ Our eyes are closed, we cannot show 

^ To men this Kingdom visible ; 

■^ Of its reality we tell 

^ Through the one sense by which we know. 

^ The veil is dark, the glass is dim, 
1" We cannot find the Kingdom's " way " ; 

11 Yet, through the discords of our day 

12 Roll echoes from its choral hymn. 

13 What sound was that which filled the air 
1^ A moment since, that that to come 

15 Is lightened of its terror dumb, 

1^ And hope o'ercomes the heart's despair? 

1'^ What word is it we hear through all 
18 The outer World's loud jubilee? 

1^ Though we may not the Kingdom see 

20 We hear and know its Ruler's call. 



Line 1. Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. — John 
18: 36. 

Line 8. He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew 
the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision 
of the Almighty, falling: into a trance, but having his 
eyes open.^Numbers 24: 16. 

Line 10. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but 
spake evil of that way before the multitude.— Acts 19 : 
9, 23. 

Line 12. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of 
the heavenly host praising God, and saying. Glory to 
God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to- 
ward men. — Luke 2: 13, 14. 

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THE COVENANT 

^ Not reward, but understanding, 

2 Lord, that I may not shame You, 

^ I, that so oft evil's commanding 

^ Tempteth to doubt and blame You. 

^ Not reward, but faint assurance, 

^ Lord, while the struggle wageth, 

'^ That this, my soul's blind, dumb endurance, 

^ Somehow Your need assuageth. 

^ Not reward, my soul hath only 

10 Hope that Your bounty giveth, 

11 But a trust, through seons lonely, 

12 That my Creator liveth. 



Line 3. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the Wilderness 
to be tempted of the devil. — Matt. 4: 1. 

Line 10. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear and your soul 
shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with 
you.— Isa. 55: 3; 2 Sam. 23: 5. 



170 



UNITY 

1 Your word and my word and God's word 

make three, 

2 If your word and my word and God's word 

agree 
2 There's strength there and help there for all 
the world to see. 

^ Your life and my life, God's life held within, 
^ Make a mighty power and rife 'gainst all 

warring sin. 
^ If your soul and my soul grasp this meaning 

true, 
"^ There's nothing that your life and mine in 

God's life cannot do. 



Line 4. That they all may be one: as thou Father art in me, 
and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. — John 
17: 21. 



171 



SECURITY 

^ Now I lay me down to sleep, 

2 Once more, once more into Thy keeping 

^ I drift o'er Night's still waters deep, 

* Protect my sleeping. 

^ I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep, 

^ Who formed its essence from Thy being, 

'^ Serene I close my eyes in sleep 

8 'Neath the All-Seeing. 

^ If I should die before I wake 
I*' Unto my Hving slumber's dreaming, 

^1 I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take 
^^ Beyond Life's seeming. 



Line 3. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadetli 
me beside the still waters. — Psa. 23 : 2. 

Line 6. Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our 
feet to be moved.— Psa. 66: 9; Job. 38: 4. 



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THE PASSAGE 

I made. Can not you trust Me 
To guard and strengthen, then? 

Yes, surely yes, O Thinker! 
To You the praise, Amen. 

Yet, if there were a beacon, 

Where slopes the steep, long hill, 

To light the river's fording. 
If such had been Your will ! 



173 



UNDERSTANDING 

1 What shall I pray for as I ought? 

2 What grant is best for me 

^ From the great storehouse in the skies 
4 That fills eternity? 

^ Fame? After me shall others come 
^ As men have gone before ; 

'^ What time have we in gaining Life 
^ To call men's titles o'er? 

^ Wealth? I brought nothing to the earth, 
i'^ I can take naught away, 

1^ Why ask Thee for a hinderance 
12 That lasts but through earth's day? 

1^ Power? I might use it to the harm 
14 Of thousands, if but one 

1^ Suffered through me how could I bear 
i** God's power when mine was done? 



Line 1. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought. 
—Romans 8: 26. 

Line 7. For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in 
God.— Col. 3: 3, 4; 2 Cor. 4: 10, 11; John 1: 4. 

Line 8. And needed not that any should testify of man: for 
he knew what was in man. — John 2 : 25. 

Line 9. There is that maketh liimself rich, yet hath nothing: 
there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. 
— Prov. 13: 7. 

Line 10. For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away ; his 
glory shall not descend after him. — Psa. 49: 17, 16; 1 
Tim. 6:7; Ecc. 5: 15. 

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1'^ Love? That I have and that I am, 
^^ I need not ask this aid ; 

^^ I could not hve apart from it — 
To die I were afraid. 



20 



21 O Mighty Thought, that called me forth 

22 From depths of nothingness, 

23 And gave me life, and death, and hope, 

24 And fear — only to bless. 

25 One boon I ask : I cannot sin 
2^ Nor hinder others' good, 

2'^ When once Thy Wisdom's inmost law 
2^ Is by me understood. 



2^ Open the eyes that Thou hast formed, 

3" Quicken the Spirit's spark, 

31 That I may know Thee, glorified, 

32 Who feel Thee through the dark. 



Line IT. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : con- 
tinue ye in my love. — John 15: 9, 12. 

Line 10. If ye l^eep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love: 
—John 15: 10. 

Line 24. I will put mv fear in their hearts, that they shall not 
depart from me.— Jer. 32: 40; Psa. 19: 9; Ecc. 12: 13. 



175 



FOREORDINATION 

Ere this habitation was made, 

Earth, with its rocks and its flowers, 
Sky-roof of sunshine and shade, 

Something was even then ours : 
Love for His thought and His plan 

Love, ere the creature had birth, 
Love for His handiwork, man, 

Ere ever was fashioned the earth. 



176 



COMMUNION 

After this manner therefore pray ye. — Matt. 6: 9 

1 Our Father which art in heaven, 

2 Hallowed be Thy name. 

^ Our Father, whom the heavens hide, 

^ Hallow our lips to speak Thy name, 

^ Hallow our hearts with Love's own flame, 

^ Till, daily cleansed from sin and pride, 

'^ We enter in Thy sphere, denied 

^ To none who seek, and there abide. 

^ Thy Kingdom come, 

1*^ Thy Will he done 

^^ On earth as it is in heaven. 

^^ Thy Kingdom, that we seek to win 

^^ In some far time and distant space, 

1* Reveal in each heart's dwelling- place, 

^^ On earth, oh, let its joy begin ! 

^^ Our wills to Thy Will grown akin, 

^'' Till all is peace, without, within. 

^^ Give us this day our daily bread. 

1^ Give us this day the bread we need, 

2" Not that we crave with lustful mind, 

-^ That we in turn to all mankind 

22 Give from our stores of useless greed 

23 More worthy gifts, a fuller meed, 

24 Not barren stalks of harmful creed. 



Line 3. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. — Job 
37: 23. 

Line 7. All that the Father giveth shall come to me; and him 
that Cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. — John 6: 
37. 

Line 23. Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the 
bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and 
to let the oppressed go free? — Isa. 58: 6, 7. 

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25 And forgive us our trespasses, 

2S As we forgive each trespass meant 

2'^ Unto our harm through others' sin, 

2S Do Thou forgive the fault w^ithin, 

29 The fault which ignorance hath lent, 

^^ An evil not in our intent, 

^^ Through our remorse proved sacrament. 

^2 As we forgive those 

22 That trespass against us. 

2^ Forgive as we forgive — as we? 

25 If this be all our hope is vain, 

"^ We only see life's loss and pain, 

2" The cause unknown that comforts Thee, 

28 Forgive more till Thy children see 

29 Their purposed immortality. 

^0 Lead us not into temptation — - 

4^ Lead us, O Father, where our pain 

^'^ And stress may serve man's need or Thine, 

42 And we will strive nor once repine, 

4"* But not where fierce temptation's strain 

45 May overpower us who would fain 

46 Be Thine and subject to Thy reign. 



Line 40. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt 
not tempt the Lord thy God.— Matt. 4: 7, 1. 

Line 42. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the 
spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. — Matt. 26: 
41. 



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^"^ But deliver us from evil- 



4S 



From evil, not from trial's test 
*^ Deliver us, from evil's charm, 

^^ That leads unto our brother's harm, 

^^ From that which mars Thy love's behest, 

^2 And weakens hope and poisons rest, 

^'^ Save us who have Thy Law confessed. 

^^ For Thine is the Kingdom 

^^ And the Power 

^^ And the Glory. — Amen. 

5'^ Thine is the Kingdom, as before 
^^ Creation stirred — yet may we share 

5^ The Glory who the burden bear. 

6° Thine is the Power forevermore, 

^^ Who shall our life in love restore, 

^2 Forever — ever — evermore. 



Line 48. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation : for when 
he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. — Jas. 1 : 12. 



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spoken by the Mortal 

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life 
unto the bitter in soul, which rejoice exceedingly and are glad 
when they can find the grave? 

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom 
God hath hedged in?— Joh 3: 20, 22, 23. 



THE CRY OF THE MORTAL 

^ Of kith and kin, of friend and foe, 

2 I asked for bread, received the stone — 

^ Till now I know, " Not bread alone," 

^ But flint sustains. Aye, this I know, 

^ Elsewise I need no longer go 

^ An hungered, or for life atone. 

''' Of God I have not dared to ask 
^ For anything, since God, they say, 

^ Turned from His Son His face away, 

^^ At the grim ending of Love's task 

^1 On Calvary. What should man ask 
^2 With hope of answer, though he pray? 

^3 Of Self, the last to whom one turns, 

1* What can one ask at Soul's behest, 

1^ What should one claim save only rest? 

^^ But coward Self death's respite spurns, 

^'^ It nourishes the Flame that burns, 

^^ Nor lifts a hand to cjuench life's quest. 



Line 9. Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying. My God, my God, 
wliy liast thou forsaken me? — Matt. 27: 46. 

Line 10. But Jesus answered them. My Father worlceth hitherto, 
and I work.— John 5: 17; John 9: 4; John 15: 12, 13. 

Line 17. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous 
God.— Deut. 4: 24. 



183 



COMPANIONED 

^ O Sin, my Sin, lying at the door — 
2 Lurking in the shadow, dazzHng in the sun, 

' How can I from thy shame turn me evermore? 
* How came we so engrained, one, aye very 

one? 

^ O Sin, my Sin, loathed, despised, abjured, 
^ Hasted from and trodden down by my eager 

feet, 
' Where waits the Spirit's help? How may I be 

cured, 
8 Rendered fit, from thee apart, for God's uses 

meet? 

^ Man nor God can make void, thee, my Sin ; 
^^ I have turned to each for aid, only thou 

art sure. 
^^ Can it be, O Strength, despised! I from thee 

shall win 
^2 That which renders God and man fitted 

to endure? 



Line 1. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if 
thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. — Gen. 4: 7. 

Line 7. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest 
the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, 
and whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the 
Spirit.— John 3: 8. 



184 



THE CREDITOR 



1 

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5 
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9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 

15 
16 
17 
18 



How much do I owe to you? 
You who never wept with me, 
You who made no pause for me, 
You who piped nor leapt with me 

Mart or market through, 

What is due to you, 

What your claim on me? 

How much do I owe to you? 

God I fear, and Christ I feel, 

Through life's stress Love's worth reveal, 

Through his stripes my passions heal 
And my soul renew. 
But my debt to you. 

Is for that repeal? 

How much do I owe to you, 
Creditor, man never saw, 
Clothed with darkness and with awe. 
Maker, Framer of the Law, 



Line 2. Jesus wept. — John 11 : 35, 33. 

Line 4. We have piped unto you and ye have not danced: we 
have mourned unto you and ye have not lamented. — Matt. 
11: 17, 16. 

Line 9. For in the multitude of dreams and many words there 
are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. — Ecc. 5: 7. 

Line 11. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised 
for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace was 
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. — Isa. 53: 5. 

Line 12. He restoreth my soul. — Psa. 23: 3. 

Line 16. And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall 
no man see me and live. — Ex. 33 : 20. 

Line 17. On the third day in the morning, there were thunders and 
lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the 
voice of the trumpet exceeding loud: so that all the 
people that was in the camp trembled. — Ex. 19: 16. 

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1^ What usury due 



20 



From my soul to you? 



2^ Brick tale without straw. 



22 



How much do I owe to you — 



23 Through I ask the years are dumb, 



24 



Creditor, no answers come- 
2^ All of life, the toil therefrom, 

2^ Death, its myrrh and rue, 
2'^ This the mortal due 
28 For the table's crumb. 



2^ How much do I owe to you? 
3^ Answer me that I may pay 

31 Life's arrearage in a day, 

32 Settle swift and then away, 

33 All the effort through ; 

34 As " our debtors " do; 

35 End the Law's delay. 



Line 19. Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank 
that at mv coming I might have required mine own with 
usury?— Luke 19: 23, 22. 

Line 21. Ye .shall no more give the people straw to make brick 
as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for them- 
selves. — Ex. 5 : 7, 8. 

Line 23. Behold God is great, and we know him not. neither can 
the number of liis years be searched out. — Job 36: 26. 

Line 28. And she said. Truth, Lord : yet the dogs eat of the 
crumbs vi'hich fall from their masters' table. — Matt. 15: 
27; Matt. 6: 11. 

Line 31. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are 
not his days also like the days of an hireling? — Job 7: 1. 

Line 33. Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accom- 
plish, as an hireling his day. — Job 14: 6. 

Line 34. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. — 
Matt. 6: 12. 



186 



BY TAKING THOUGHT 

" Consider the lilies how they grow." 
I did consider while each dead delight 
Of summer-tide lay folded cold and white 

Beneath the falling mantle of the snow. 

" They toil not neither do they spin " — 
And, all my useless spinning laid aside, 
Its effort ended and its hope denied, 

I thought upon the life that knows not sin — 

The flower life, with no sense of daily care. 
No fear of storm, no hope of further good 
Than may be in each moment understood, 

And wondered in the dim, snow-laden air. 

" And yet the Kings of Earth are not arrayed 
Like one of these " — I put my spinning by 
While I " consider " and no longer try 

To deck the Earth Kings' garments with my aid. 

I wonder if the plan were that at first 
Among the lilies I grew e'en as they, 
In some long-past, faintly remembered May, 

My soul with theirs in spotless beauty burst. 

Or have I yet to reach their place within 

The thought of God, who bade me think on 

these ; 
And which is surer, the great thought to 
please, 
The lilies' faith or mine — that soiled with sin, 

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And marred with doubt and hindered by the 
days 
Of taking thought, shall yet a beauty know, 
Transcending e'en " the lilies as they grow," 

Unquestioning their law within Earth's ways. 

They do not loathe as I the hindering clod, 
The darkness and the struggle in its night; 
Yet, when my soul at last attains the light 

It may be worthier in the sight of God. 



188 



I LIE SUPINE 

I lie supine 
Beside the way that leads unto the goal, 
The mystic goal that shines with light benign 

Upon my soul. 

Not at the base 
Of my desire, not where Hope's mountains shine 
But far, beside a highway commonplace 

I lie supine. 

That others gain 
With mighty toil my dreamland's heights divine 
I know, while mid their bleeding footprints stain 

I lie supine. 

If I could turn 
Aside into green fields, nor longer hear 
The marching feet, if I once more could yearn. 

Could hope, or fear! 

The mountains shine 
Above the dusty plain, and day by day. 
New pilgrims hasten past where by the way 

I lie supine. 



189 



SERVICE 

I am such a little part 
Of the Universal Heart. 

Little ducts and valves there be 
In the great Heart's mystery. 

That I serve the Life that flows 
Through the channels God bestows 

Is enough : in the great Thought 
God had need, or I were not. 



190 



10 



EXPIATION 

^ I died. God placed me in a lurid place 

- Because of deeds done in the body's thrall, 

3 (For my soul's good it was) and all the space 

'* About it echoed with the wailing call 

5 Of evil souls, it ceaseless rose and fell, 

'' And one in passing railed and called it Hell. 

' But till I heard, as when I lived on Earth, 

s Faint, rapturous music halting into speech, 

^ And in my heart there was no sense of dearth ; 

Still to my soul Love's mighty chord did 

reach, 

11 And so I did not fear its gruesome spell, 

12 I knew the while I heard, it was not Hell. 

1^ I lifted up my eyes and from afar 
14 Two of God's angels came and stood amazed 

1^ Beholding me. Where utmost raptures are 
16 Their sphere triumphant rolls. They stood 

and gazed. 
1^ " Can God be mocked?" they said, " Lord, is it 

well 
1^ To leave this soul, who hears Thy voice, in 

Hell?" 



Line 1. Hell and destruction are before the Lord : how much 
more then the hearts of the children of men? — Prov. 15: 
11. 

Line 10. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my 
bed in hell, behold thou art there.— Psa. 139: 8. 

Line 18. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell : neither wilt 
thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. — Psa. 16: 
10. 

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^^ I strove to answer them. They could not hear. 

20 yiy voice was soundless through my happy 

tears. 

21 God's voice filled all the place, and far and 

near 

22 A tremor ran through high and nether 

spheres. 

23 I strove to answer them : " Lo, all is well, 

2^ He does not leave the soul, who loves, in 
Hell." 



25 " Lo, I am here because of evilness 

2^ That overcame my struggling soul on 
Earth ; 

27 Here, in this place of tumult and distress, 

28 Must I await in hope my soul's rebirth ; 
2^ Here, louder hour by hour soundeth the knell 
^^ Of fallen naure's power. Can such be Hell? 

31 " The debt of sin I pay. God cannot err, 

32 Here, or in highest Heaven, I am His own, 

33 To raise or to cast down. All souls that were 

34 On Earth to reach His Heaven draw near 

the throne 

35 Through expiating that by which they fell. 
3^ I am content, though this indeed be Hell." 



Line 27. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of 
death prevented me. — Psa. 18: 5. 

Line 35. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the 
grave: for he shall receive me. — Psa. 49: 15. 



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3"^ My whole soul thrilled with music and I knew 
38 God's will the while I heard. I bowed my 

head. 
2^ The sweeping flames leapt nearer. They with- 
drew, 
^^ Their questioning souls silenced and com- 

forted. 
*^ Beneath my feet I heard the demons yell, 
^2 And yet for me the place could not be Hell. 

^3 What then is Heaven? To love! and that 

alone ; 
** Now am I Heaven debarred since this I 

know? 
^^ What though beside me souls in torment 

groan. 
Not knowing yet what only Love can 

show? 
^'^ Who has known Love may not his law repel, 
For such an one, in truth, there is no Hell. 



46 



48 



Line 47. I am he that liveth, and was dead : and behold, I am 
alive for evermore, Amen ; and have the keys of hell and 
of death.— Rev. 1: 18. 



193 



INSIGHT 

Because I am a Captive, 

I pity all who know 
The Captive's desolation, 

The measure of such woe. 

Because I am a Captive, 

I pity all who yearn 
To see the sunlight's glory 

Where dungeon torches burn. 

Because I am a Captive, 

I pity all wild things 
Captured from field and forest 

To life-long sufferings. 

If I were not a Captive — 
Ah, then I might not care 

That others were in bondage 
And pining everywhere. 

And so, to make me tender, 

And worth what He has planned, 

God put me with the caged things, 
That I mig:ht understand. 



194 



ON AN OVERRULING PROVIDENCE 
The Creed of the Unafflicted 

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them 

shall not fall on the ground without your Father. — Matt. 10: 29. 

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.— Matt. 10: 30. 

I know that God is good, because my need 
Is well supplied with all I would command; 

And daily I repeat my simple creed — 
And nothing more require to understand. 

The winter wind that howls beyond my door 
Is powerless to chill my fire's bright ray. 

Alas, indeed, for the defenceless poor 

Who have no shelter from the storm blast's 



sway 



Among them, doubtless, some of hardened mind 
May doubt the Providence that cares for me. 

I pity them, the lame, the halt, the blind, 
And to their need I dole my charity. 

I know that God is good and notes the fall 
Of every sparrow in the sleet and snow. 

But oh, how many never think at all 
On Providence that watches all below ! 

How many live who do not know each hair 
Is numbered on their fellows' aching head? 

How many from life's measureless despair 
Seek refuge from God's goodness, with the 
dead. 

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Why God arranged things so I could beheve 
I do not know ; I am content to trust. 

Let others starve and freeze and wail and grieve, 
I have no doubts. I know that God is just. 

I do not need to steal from other men, 

Or wring the oil of gladness from their woe, 

Or trust promote my way to wealth, but then — 
I have enough, and God rules all below. 

I have a house to shield me from the storm. 
And food and books to cheer my solitude, 

And wine to drink and fire to keep me warm — 
And so I know and say that God is good. 



196 



THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE 

^ O Children of the Desolate, your voices in 
the wind 

^ Whisper at eve a wondrous tale to others of 
your kind, 

^ And where the morning dew is brushed by 
solitary feet, 

^ There are ye ever found, anew your longing 
to repeat. 

^ The children of the married wife bring com- 
fort or dismay, 

^ They fail or answer to her need, but ye are 
more than they. 

"^ O Children of the Desolate, that answer to 

our cry, 
^ And in earth's silent places heaven's bread 

and wine supply 
^ Lo it is written, She that hath an husband 

shall have less 
^^ To understand her solitude and comfort her 

distress. 



Line 7. For more are the children of the desolate than the chil- 
dren of the married wife, saith the Lord. — Isa. 54: 1. 

Line 8. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
rows: yet we did esteem him stridden, smitten of God 
and afflicted.— Isa. 53: 4; Matt. 11: 28. 

Line 10. For the desolate hath many more children than she 
which hath an husband. — Gal. 4: 27. 



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NOT WITHOUT HONOR 

^ My own country, my own, where I was born, 

2 Here would I speak the word, and offer up 

3 The draught of love from being's mystic 

cup — 
* Yet from me turn my countrymen in scorn. 

•^ But, in some country far, across the seas, 

^ Across the mountain barriers of stone, 

^ A stranger people have the message 

known — 
^ Not without honor is the gift to these. 

^ Yet, O my comrades whom I would delight, 
^^ And oh! the dear, familiar valley ways, 

11 But once to hear some little meed of praise, 

12 But once to stand acknowledged in your 

sight ! 



Line 1. And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is ac- 
cepted in his own country. — Lulce 4 : 24. 

Line 6. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and 
hill "shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made 
straight, and the rough places plain. — Isa. 40: 4. 



198 



THE HOSTEL 

1 The room is warm, the room is Hght — 

2 Outside the darkness and the night 
^ Loom close and near, 

^ And I, with purchased food and cheer, 

5 Am conscious vaguely of a fear, 

^ A strange affright. 

'^ The room has windows to the Sun, 

^ And tropic airs bring bension 
^ Of incense sweet. 

^•^ All things save one, in full degree 

11 The Hostel renders unto me, 

12 All things save one. 

1-^ The Hostel clamors for its pay 

1* And lo, I render day by day 
15 Its lawful rate: 

1^ And ever for its bread I give 

1'^ My toil that I may longer live 
1^ To compensate. 

1^ But, through life's commonplace, there comes 

20 At times a sound of rolling drums 

21 And vague unrest, 

22 At all the Hostelry affords 

23 Beats inward with the clash of swords, 

24 The sounds attest. 

25 The room is warm, the room is bright, 

26 Outside the darkness and the night 
2'^ A promise bear: 

2^ But I, with creature warmth and food 

29 Content, abjure my soldierhood, 
^^ Nor seek — nor dare. 



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AN OFFERING 

1 Upon the bridge I stand ; 

2 While back and forth, and to and fro, 

3 On varied tasks the people go 
* On either hand. 

^ From morn to eve I hold 
6 And offer to the restless throng, 

'^ As ceaselessly it moves along, 

^ New-minted gold. 

^ And to each soul I cry 
^0 "A guinea for a shilling take." * 

11 But all in vain I offer make, 

12 For none dare buy. 

1^ When on the bridge the night 

1^ Shuts down, and journeyed onward I, 

1^ Some morning will another cry 

1^ Within men's sight 

1'^ "A guinea for a shilling here 
IS I give — come, trade the daylight through." 

1^ Crowded the throng their way renew, 

20 The price too dear. 



♦A wager said to have been made and won in London. No one 
daring to accept the offered gold. 



Line 9. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole 
world, and lose his own 'soul? or what shall a man give 
in exchange for his soul?— Matt. 16: 26; Psa. 49: 6, 8. 

Line 19. Knter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and 
broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many 
there be which go in thereat. — Matt. 7 : 13. 

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MY KINDRED 

^ Those who know you but through your writ- 
ten wording 

2 Of grief, desire and love, 

2 Speak, poets, of your fate's forlorn affording, 

* The mocking jest thereof; 

^ Saying (the chroniclers of outward seeming), 

^ " You lived apart, alone, 

'^ Isolate, through your calling and your dream- 
ing, 

^ Nor reached, nor knew your own." 

^ They speak of Law, immutable, unchanging, 
1° That grants, through long delay, 

11 Unto the dead, wearied by earth's estranging, 

12 An unworn crown of bay. 

1^ But I, who tread the pathway of your making, 

1"* Partake in your disgrace, 

1° Plead vainly, the predestinate partaking, 

1^ But once to see your face. 

i" To reach you, save through soundless, printed 

pages, 
1^ To know with you, my own. 

Oh, could the love that life and fate assuages 

Bless through your voice, your tone. 
Are we so dear to God He sends no neighbor 

The poet's lore to share? 
Is ever earthly meed for spirit labor 
2^ But isolate despair? 



Line 8. He came unto his own. and his own received him not. — 
John 1: 11; John 13: 1; John 15: 19. 

Line 21. Wealth malceth many friends; but the poor is separated 
from his neighbor. — Prov. 19: 4; Prov. 27: 10. 

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25 God is not mocked, the Scriptures of the 
letter 

2^ The human kind assures. 

2'' The messenger of God, bound by earth's 
fetter, 

2S Much mockery endures. 

2^ The Spirit that makes live is only granted 

^'^ As winds of heaven list, 

^1 Now here, now there, unto earth's disen- 
chanted, 

32 Who hath his kindred missed. 



Line 25. Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a 
man soweth, tliat shall he also reap. — Gal. 6: 7. 

Line 29. Not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, 
but the spirit giveth life.— 2 Cor. 3: 6; John 6: 63; John 
3: 8. 

Line 32. And the multitude sat abotit him, and they said unto 
him. Behold thy mother and thv brethren without seek 
for thee.— Mark 3: 32, 35; Luke 8: 20, 21; Matt. 12: 47, 
50. 



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I HAVE NO APOLOGY TO MAKE TO MAN 

1 I have no apology to make to man 

2 For living- the life of my choice before him, 

^ Doing the deeds that reveal or conceal me, 
^ Or leaving undone the tasks man would set 
me. 

5 I have no time to explain myself to him, 
^ That he may change his opinions and judg- 
ments, 
'' And that he may understand me and love me. 
^ I have no desire that man understand me. 

^ I often fail in my self-understanding. 
10 Why then should man understand when I do 
not? 

II I care not that man should know at the same 

time 

12 The worth of my soul, the price of my dinner. 

13 If I spend myself in preparing banquets 

1^ What give I of self to my guest save exhaus- 
tion? 

1^ When I have received the true " Bread from 
heaven " 

1^ It has not been with men feasting together, 



Line 5. Then said Jesus unto them, My time is not yet come, 
but your time is ahvay ready. — John 7:6; John 9: 4. 

Line 9. Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then un- 
derstand his own way? — Prov. 20: 24. 

Line ]5. Then .Tesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto 
you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but 
my Father givetli you the true bread from heaven. — 
John 6: 32. 

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1'^ But by chance, where strangers meet on the 

highway 
1^ A crumb — when my need was sore — from a 

stranger, 
1^ One who, in meeting and parting, demanded 

20 No thought but my need, no exchange or re- 

warding. 

21 But, though for man I have no explanation 

22 Yet is there One unto whom I make outcry, 

23 Day unto day and the hours of the nighttime, 

24 CaUing, importune, with passion my pleading, 

25 All my desire that I be comprehended, 

26 That He remember the frame of His making, 

27 The dust of the earth and His breath that 

endues it, 

28 That He remember the worth of- the spirit, 

29 Striving to show through earth's clog its per- 

fection, 

30 Drawing through flesh to its full revelation, 

31 Wrought of His thought and create in His 

Image, 

32 Needing nor plea nor excuse for its being. 



Line 22. The Ijord looked down from heaven upon the children 
of men, to see if there were any that did understand 
and seek God. — Psa. 14: 2. 

Line 27. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground 
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and 
man became a living soul. — Gen. 2: 7. 

Line 29. For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall 
stand at the latter day upon the earth. — Job 19: 25, 
26, 27. 

Line 31. So God created man in his own image, in the image of 
God created he him. — Gen. 1 : 27. 

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AFFINITY 
The Over Soul 

^ I never blamed Thee. Through my suffering, 
2 Through Life's debasement, through my 

woe and dread 
^ I never blamed the impetus to grow, 
^ Nor questioned that which strove, nor 

cursed, nor said 
^ Aught against effort, only, God of mine, 
^ I asked for understanding, mine and Thine. 

" I never blamed Thee, Thy sufficiency 
^ Should equalize the elements that seek 

^ Good's equilibrium, but if for me 
^° Came opportunity, if I might wreak 

^^ Upon an evil world an impulse strong 

^" Of power and fealty ! Lord, how long, how 
long? 

1^ I never blamed Thee — through the silences, 
1* That spell defeat, I only longed to send 

^^ An answer to the Soul's majestic need, 
1^ And something vast and mighty to befriend 

^'' In my poor, puny way. Could I feel blame, 

^^ Lord, Thy remoteness might my wonder 
claim. 



Line 6. Teach me and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to 
understand wherein I have erred. — Job 6: 24; Job 10: 
2; Job 11: 7; Job 12: 12; Job 13: 3. 

Line 12. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the 
wicked triumph ?—Psa. 94: 3, 4; Psa. 35: 17; Psa. 13: 
1, 2; Psa. 6: 3. 

Line 15. For God so loved the World, that he gave his only be- 
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 
perish but have everlasting life. — John 3: 16. 

Line 18. That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might 
feel after him. and find him, though he be not far from 
every one of us. — Acts 17: 27. 

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THE SEED SPEAKS 

God placed me in the dark, 

In garden of His choice, 
And willed — that through earth's cloggin< 

might 
I might aspire to reach the light, 

To hear His voice. 

God watched the place where I 

Made struggle ceaselessly, 
And hoped — I could not choose but grow 
Through darkness to the sunlight's glow, 

Where He could see. 

God needed in His plan 

Something that I could give, 
A grace, a symmetry, that I 
Through force responsive could supply — 

Therefore I live — 

Live, for His time I wait; 

Live, in the dark I grow. 
Feeling that sometime where the light 
Makes beautiful, within His sight 

My flowers shall glow. 



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BOUND AND IN CHAINS 

^ Bound and in chains the spirit lingering waits 

2 The Hberation hour, 

2 Remembering the while Youth's vanished 

power, 

"* The step that sprang to meet the duty near, 
^ The ignorance of fear, 

^ The courage for the hidden fate untried, 
'^ With promise satisfied. 

^ Sport of the gods men claim, 
^ Progenitors in name — 

'° Till, conquered in the battle with the wrong, 

^^ Beaten with stripes, amid the rabble throng, 

^' Servitor to the fate naught may assuage, 

^^ And captive to fell Age, 

1** The mortal in Life's prison house remains 

^^ Bound and in chains. 



lAne 1. God setteth the solitary in families: lie bringeth out 
those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious 
dwell in a dry land. — Psa. 68: 6. 

Line 3. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return 
to the days of his youth.— Job 33: 25; Psa. 110: 3. 

Line 6. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, 
while the evil days come not, nor the years draw' nigh, 
when thou 'Shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. — Eccl. 
12: 1. 

Line 7. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail 
for evermore?— Psa. 77: 8; Rom. 4: 14; Bph. 1: 13; 1 
Tim. 4: 8; 2 Tim. 1: 1; Heb. 9: 15; 2 Pet. 3: 4, 9, 13; 

1 John 2: 25. 

Line 9. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of 
the most High.— Psa. 82: 6; John 10: 35. 

Line 11. If he commit ini(iuity, I will chasten him with the rod 
of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.— 

2 Sam. 7: 14; Luke 12: 47. 

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INCLUSION 

I said I stand within the Law, 

The Plan of God, to work my share, 
What is required of man to dare 

The Maker of his strength foresaw. 

I said I stand within the Law, 
The Law is one, the Law is sure, 
What I and others must endure 

Has been before, there is no flaw : 

No pang is new, some man has known 
Each anguish hour that man may fear : 
No sohtude is lone, I hear 

Through these my griefs my brother's moan. 

Where'er my feet are bruised within 
The trodden path or desert place. 
Some one has stumbled in the race. 

Or won the heights I fain would win. 

If I rejoice it is because 

Some other raised Life's standard high, 

Whate'er my aim I may not try 
To win a separate applause. 

Some one has known, some one has made 

Example for the deed I do ; 

Success or failure garners through 
A sequence I may not evade. 

The strength that shall the Law fulfil. 
The Maker of the Law He made; 
I move toward knowledge, unafraid, 

Perceiving the Eternal Will. 

Maker of the Law! I see 

Some part of what Thy love intends. 
Through mystery that sight transcends 

1 move, past Law, past self — to Thee. 

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THE WIND SOME DAY 

^ The Wind some day — the ranting Wind and 

idle— 
2 My servitor shall be, 

^ To waft from Fire's caress the dust that 

mantled 

* My earth necessity. 

^ That no cold grave cell may, enclosing, stifle 

^ My residue of clay, 

'^ Swift to my need, in answer to the spirit, 

* From far — in haste — shall come the Wind, 

some day. 

^ Some day the Wind — that bloweth where it 

listeth— 
1" A tryst with me shall make. 

11 One last embrace when, dust to dust return- 

ing, 

12 Earth's temple I forsake. 

1^ Back to the void from which all law was 

fashioned, 
1^ The Thinker to obey, 

1^ Unparticled, dissolved, from form to freedom, 
1^ My liberation waits the Wind some day. 



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The Vision of the Human 



9 
10 
11 
12 



THE UPLANDS 

Below is the Mart, whence riseth strife. 
Below men struggle and toil for life 

In the noisy days' unrest. 
But the air of the Uplands' stretch is clear, 
And no sound ariseth to dull the ear 

Of the seeker of the Quest. 

Below in the Mart are gorgeous things. 
Its prize to the strong the turmoil brings, 

And the swift the race attain. 
But they who follow the Uplands' ways. 
Nor seek from honor, nor ask of praise. 

Shall the " Vision Splendid " gain. 



Line 6. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new 
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous- 
ness.— 2 Pet. 3: 13. 

Line 9. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. 
Ecc. 9: 11. 

Line 12. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first 
heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there 
was no more sea. — Rev. 21: 1. 



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PRESCIENCE 

1 The day before the apple trees, 

2 In all the glory of the May, 

3 Yielded their blossoms to the breeze 

* And, from each pink and whited spray, 

5 Called to the fragant orchard leas 

^ Brown, droning clouds of honey bees — 

"^ I saw the flawless after day. 

8 The day before the apple trees 

9 Gave to the May their op'ning store, 
1^ It chanced I passed and looked on these, 

11 Not as men pass by, o'er and o'er, 

12 The moment of the mysteries, 
1^ For, in the promise, I did seize 
1* Fruition in the day before. 

15 The day before the apple trees 

16 Revealed what future days should blight, 
1"^ Before the rainfall and the breeze 

18 Should mar or bruise their garments white, 

1^ Before Time crowned or vanished these, 

20 With evanescent royalties, 

21 I made my own the Spring's delight. 

22 The apple trees, row after row, 

23 Like soldiers at attention stood, 

24 While I, my spirit all aglow, 

25 Received the thought which they did brood, 

26 An instant felt that which they know 

27 From the Beginning — even so 

28 I rested in Infinitude. 



Line 25. These are the generations of the heavens and of the 
earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord 
God made the earth and the heavens, — 
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, 
and every herb of the field before it grew. — Gen. 2: 4, 5. 

Line 27. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 
—Gen. 1:1. 

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REVELATION 

1 Here it lies, naked to the seeing eye, 

2 This that was mine, my soul, when mine I 

had. 

3 Think ye I am dishonored thereby, 

* That now my soul may gain or honor add? 

^ This the unvestured Truth is none of mine, 

^ Save as I see her vestal outline fair. 

"^ If ye can see, the vision too is thine — 

* If ye hear not, I nothing here declare. 



Line 8. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, whieh 
.saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; 
and seeing ye shaU see, and shall not perceive. — Matt. 13: 
14. 



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SUBCONSCIOUSNESS 

^ I tell it now, 

2 I tell it here— 

2 While yet my hand can hold the pen 

* That leaves a record unto men — 

^ I write it clear. 

^ No kinship with Soul's mystery 

"^ By God has been vouchsafed me. 

^ I am as all 

^ Subject to Powers that rule and be. 

^^ At times I rise 

^^ Subconsciously 

12 Beyond the ken of men who toil 

1^ To wrest Life's bread from barren soil ; 

1* And then I see 

1^ A glory past the toilers' ken 

1^ And — separate from other men, 

1'^ The vision limn, 

1^ On shifting sands or marshy fen. 



Line 6. Jesus said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent 
me. — John 7: 16. 

Line 9. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For 
there is no power but of God; the powers that be are 
ordained of God.— Rom. 13: 1; Eph. 6: 12; Rom. 8: 28; 
Col. 1: 16. 

Line 11. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — 2 
Cor. 12: 1, 2, 3; 2 Cor. 5: 8. 

Line 12. Jesus knew all men, — he knew what was in man. — John 
2: 24, 25. 

Line 14. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begot- 
ten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath 
declared him.--John 1: 18. 

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13 I tell it now— 

-" Whose word is naught — 

21 Despised, rejected, poor and old, 

22 I speak of wonders manifold, 

23 Yet all unwrought. 

2'* And things unlawful to be known, 

25 I — who have nothing of my own — 

2^ Strive to bestow 

27 When, momently, their glimpse is shown. 



Line 19. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which 
sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should 
say, and what I should speak. — John 12: 49, 50. 

Line 20. The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's 
which sent me. — John 14: 24. 

Line 21. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet pres- 
ent with you. — John 14: 25. 

Line 22. "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have 
seen.— John 3: 11, 12; 2 Cor. 12: 1. 

Line 24. He was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeak- 
able words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 
2 Cor. 12: 4; Rom. 11: 33. 

Line 25. Then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do noth- 
ing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak 
these things.— John 8: 28; 2 Cor. 12: 2, 3, 4. 



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PROPORTIONMENT 

^ " The waiting time did seem so long, 

2 Dear Lord," I said, " the thousand years 

^ Of human suffering and wrong, 

* That one day in Thy sight appears, 

^ How can I of its length'ning bear 

^ The sad proportion of my share?" 

'^ But, when the thousand years were past, 
^ I, entering my rest, attained 

^ An insight of the patience vast 
1" That God's eternity sustained. 

11 " Dear Lord," I said, " the moment's pain 

1^ I, for Thy sake, would share again." 



Line 2. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a 
thousand years as one day. — 2 Pet. 3: 8. 

Line S. There remaineth tlierefore a rest to the people of God. 
— Heb. 4: 9. 



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THE IDEAL 

So far it shines across an untried sea, 
So high it gleams above a darkHng world, 

A radiance past compare — but, meant for me? 
So far, so high, what signal is unfurled? 

^ O Angel of Redemption, whose swift sword 
2 Cleaves the fair houses that I sojourn in 

^ With lightning stroke and sharp — till all 

within 
* Is changed from the joyance once adored — 
^ Thou art above all change my life's High 

Lord. 
^ Thine to lay low what I may ill begin, 

' And mine to strive anew fresh hope to win 

^ Nor grant a saddened trust by Thee abhorred. 

^ O Angel of Redemption, I have served 
1° For no reward, have seen the shelters fall, 

The shelters youth, strength, hope, ambi- 
tion, all — 
Yet never from allegiance have I swerved. 
Yet by one thought my spirit is unnerved. 
They who rejoice, alone perfect Thy call. 



Line 14. I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called 
my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice 
in my highness. — Isa. 13: 3; Psa. 68: 3. 



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To stand and wait, rejoicing in the thought 
That one shall sow and yet another reap, 
To sink, with trust unshaken, in the sleep 

That rounds desire, accomplished or un- 
wrought ; 

These are Thy servitors who fail in naught, 
And such the souls who solve Thy purpose 

deep. 
I have been faithful, but the tears I weep 

Have dimmed the glory of the quest I sought. 

Angel of Redemption, Thou Ideal, 

By those who love Thee most, misunder- 
stood, 
I gave Thee what I garnered of life's good. 
Submission, patience, things approved real. 
And yet the one thing needful, that which 
should 
Crown all the giving, joy ! I may not feel. 

1 see the one thing needful, as I see. 
In the high places, or within my soul, 
There must be God to limit and control. 

There must be God to open and set free. 
And yet (and this is the despair of me), 

I cannot in myself comprise the whole 
Of the Great Vision, whose entirety 

The starry firmaments alone unroll. 



Line 2. Thou shalt sow, but thou slialt not reap; thou shalt 
tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with 
oil.— Mic. 6: 15. 

Line 7. We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto 
ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shin- 
eth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star 
arise in your hearts .■ — 2 Pet. 1 : 19, 20. 

Line 8. And God said. Let there be a firmament in the midst of 
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 
—Gen. 1: 6, 7, 8, 16, 17. 

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^ I see the one thing needful and I stand 
^° Worse than the bHnd, who have no sense 

of sight, 
^^ BHnded by the effulgence of a light 

^- That never yet hath been at man's command. 
^•"^ " You see, O puny traveler of a night, 

^■^ A bridge whose arch by thought alone is 

spanned." 

And yet, and yet, smce man alone can see 
The vision splendid, to the beast denied. 
That makes him, evermore dissatisfied 
With creature wants, long for eternity. 
As all too short for what his hope descried. 
Why should despair control the soul of me? 
Why of the highest should the worst betide? 

The answer waits the question, as the flower, 
Rolled in its sheath shall surely, in the sun. 
Expand the treasure of a beauty won 

Through dark and cold and midnight's dreary 
hour. 

That which we hope prefigureth the power 
To bless, else were the Universe undone. 



221 



CAPACITY 

" Thought is mine." 

" Why not to me 

Comes expression's Hberty?" 
" Have you loosed the bonds of soul 

From the things which they control, 

Known the Spirit's glancing reach? 

To you then come thought and speech." 



222 



THE PORTAL 

^ I said, " It is my will 

" That guards from Sin's invasion my weak 

heart," 
^ And thenceforth strove with every human 

art 
"* To strengthen will, but faltered as before. 

^ God said, " It is thy thought 

^ That opes to Sin's advancement thy heart's 

door — 

"^ Make clean thy thought and then, forever- 

more 

^ As one of us, lo, undismayed thou art." 



Line 5. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. — Prov. 23: 7. 

Line 8. And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as 
one of us, to Isnow good and evil. — Gen. 3: 22. 



223 



TRANSITION 

^ What are you moaning- over, Soul? 

2 Something beyond your own control, 

^ Something planned in the long ago, 

^ Something that God and the angels know, 

^ Some image to carve through the senses' pain, 

^ Of what, O Soul, do you so complain? 

'^ Is it your desire — when the Sculptors stand 

^ At rest from their laboring purpose grand, 

^ Gazing with pride at their art displayed, — 

1^ To linger still in the block, unmade? 

1^ Where is the chisel's sharpest blow? 

^2 Let the Spirit strike till the Image show. 



Line 12. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our 
liiiene'ss. — Gen. 1: 26. 



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REQUISITE 

Sometimes the Spirit passes 

So close, so near to me, 

I see the sheen on flashing wings, 
I hear the song whose echoings 

In faint degree 

I murmur, murmur, when again 

I walk where men with fellow-men 

Strive heedlessly. 

Afterward — when earth's turmoil 
Ascends, with loud complaint 

Against God's throne — I question why, 

Rather should sinner testify 
Than seer or saint? 

Awaits the answer: " By My wounds 

Ninety and nine thy voice o'ersounds 
Whose need avowed." 



Line 3. John said, A man can receive nothing except it be given 
him from heaven. — John 3: 27. 

Line 4. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the 
sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh. and 
whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the 
Spirit.— John 3: 8. 

Line 11. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of an- 
other, and seek not the honour that cometh from God 
only?— John 5: 44; John 12: 43. 

Line 12. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repent- 
ance. — Luke 5: 32. 

Line 14. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on 
him whom they pierced. — John 19: 37, 34; John 6: 44; 
Rev. 1: 7. 

Line 15. Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, 
more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need 
no repentance. — Luke 1.5: 7. 

Line 16. For your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, 
before ye ask him.— Matt. 6:8; Matt. 9: 12; Phil. 4: 19; 
Heb. 4 : 16 ; Rev. 3 : 17. 



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CULTUS 

"What do you worship?" 
" That which I have not." 
"What do you long for?" 
" That which I am not." 
"What overawes you?" 
" All that I know not." 
" What have you mastered?" 
" God has not finished 

Making new worlds, 

Nor the old ones perfected." 

" What would you give God 

Should He desire aught?" 
" All that He asks not, 

That I imagine 

He could receive from the frail and the human, 

Loyalty, trust, till I reach understanding." 



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UNMANIFEST 

And the house when it was building, was built of stone made 
ready before it was brought hither: so that there was neither 
hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while 
it was in building. — 1 Kings 6: 7. 

Palace made without sound — 

Plane and hammer and saw, 
Useless these in the round 

Of the eternal law. 
This the created stands 

High on the mountain side, 
Palace made without hands. 

Place where I shall abide. 

Never yet have I stood 

Where the temple I raise. 
Never uttered the good, 

Never sounded the praise. 
But — where the heavens show 

Sphere after sphere profound, 
There is the home I know, 

Palace made without sound. 



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COSMOS 

^ Stars where'er I look in Infinity ; 
2 By their light I know, through their light I 
see. 

^ Stars without, within, I too am a star, 
* Diff'ring in degree, polarized afar. 

^ Of one substance, all from one central sun, 
^ Many forms we show, but the light is one. 



Line 2. We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; Whereunto 
ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shin- 
eth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day 
star arise in your hearts. — 2 Pet. 1: 19; Rev. 2: 28. 

Line 4. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the 
moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star dif- 
fereth from another star in glory. — 1 Cor. 15: 41. 

Line 5. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and 
all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. — Psa. 
33: 6. 

Line 6. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. — 
John 1: 4. 

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VERY VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING 

^ Very very early in the morning 

2 Something stirs, complaining or rejoicing; 

2 Consciousness it is that waits to claim me 

* Where, between the worlds, apart from either, 
^ I await, indifferent, the daylight. 

^ Very very early in the morning, 

"^ Ere I hear Life's murmurous stir triumphant, 

* Ere the birds make orisons rejoicive, 

^ Ere the summoned light the world discloses, 

^'^ Something speaks that is not I, yet of me. 

^^ Very very early in the morning 

12 Daily is a miracle enacted. 

1^ He who doubts of miracles may know it, 

1* He who listens may approve the message 

1^ Of the Soul returning to its tasking. 

1^ Very very early in the morning, 

1'^ Born again into the mystic kingdom 

1^ That o'erlies earth's tumult and endeavor, 

1^ Is the self renewed and consecrated 

2" For the daylight's hours that follow after. 



Lin© 9. And God said, Let tliere be liglit : and there was ligiit. — 
Gen. 1: 3. 

Line 12. There is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, 
that can lightly speak evil of me. — Mark 9: 39; Luke 23: 
8; John 2: 11; John 4: 54. 

Line 13. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. — 
John 10: 37, 38, 41. 

Line 17. Jesus said, Verily I say unto thee. Except a man be 
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. — John 3: 
3, 5, 7, 8. 

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OCCULTISM 

The lowest depth that thou canst reach, 
The grandest height thou canst attain, 

Thy kind possess : when thou canst teach 
Thy spirit this, the rest is plain. 

Thence comes a helpfulness for all 
Who strive beside thee for the light ; 

They are thyself, whate'er befall. 

Their sin is thine; their peace, thy right. 



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INEQUALITY 

There is a distant place that men call Heaven, 

It is so far away ; 
Beyond the changing- portals of the dawning, 

Beyond the realm of day, 
Beyond the utter darkness of the midnight, 

And past the evening star. 
And no one ever turns from it to tell us 

What Heaven's raptures are. 
And no one ever cares to share with others 

His certitude of bliss. 
And so the living are unsure of Heaven, 

Of what and where it is. 

If it were not so far! if one were certain 

Of that strange, distant grace. 
Who would endure the loss and limitation 

That thwarts the human race? 
If it were near, as near as Hell ! if only 

It could be understood, 
Save through the smirch and soil of exil's know 
edge 

That turns our souls to good. 
If it be naught, indeed. sa\e a i)ure fancy 

Of rest evolved from pain. 
Yet oh, to feel, nor lose the sweet illusion 

W^hile life and thought remain! 

The realm of Hell is near, so close, so binding. 
We cannot 'scape to see 

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What God may hold for us of greater living 

Than Hell's fierce ecstasy. 
Closer to us than breath that fills our nostrils, 

Than limbs or feet or hands, 
Is this that nourisheth the human spirit, 

And granteth its demands. 
If it were far, if Hell were far as Heaven ! 

If only for a day 
To change the worlds — or were they equidistant, 

Not one so far away. 



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THE ANSWER 

Do you want all to know, 

Or one, one only? 
Is your demand 
That thousands of earth's hosts 

Shall know you, lonely, 
And understand 

The terror and the longing and the blame. 
And all life's shame? 

Or do you long that one 

Shall comprehend you. 
Nor know nor care 
That thousands — at the sign — 

Would each defend you 
From soul's despair? 
What is your heart's demand? what is your 

will 
Fate should fulfil? 

You cannot ask of Fate 

What is not ready 
For your soul's good. 
The thought that formed you 

From the void is steady. 
Your every mood 

Is reflexed by me, for I am God's plan 
That made you man. 

There is an answer, Soul. 
There is a reason 

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Why you should be 
Upheld, apart, in time, 

Or out of season, 
In Fate's decree. 

I am the answer, I who speak am all 
That can befall. 

I listen at the door, 

I stir the curtain, 
I wield the knife 
That makes the wound. 

When you are all uncertain 
Of law or life. 

I am the message, I alone am true. 
What, Soul, are you? 

I am so close, so near, 
I know, beloved, 
Your every thought. 
If I were not 

God were not — all disproved 
That He has wrought. 
I am Desire and I am that that will 
Desire fulfil. 

Go you apart from men. 

They can not give you 
What I can give ; 
Though they reject you, 

Or though they receive you. 
By me you live. 

I am life's answer and I am the whole 
You shall control. 



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WISDOM AND LOVE 

For life — and our ability to partly comprehend its 
law, accept our gratitude. 

For death — and to its law, with all that it implies 
of the revealing of Love's immortality, accept our 
submission. 

For power — throughout our broken lives, through 
aspiration and defeat to feel within our souls Thy 
mighty purpose usward. to grasp its challenge and 
through faith to rise unto Thy need, accept our 
selves. 

What to Thee is knowledge we must attain 
through faith, and what with Thee is love we reach 
through suffering, and thus, obtaining through our 
limitations, a recognition of Thy attributes, do we 
become worthy of Thy thought of us, and, through 
our answering thought, we grasp Thy life, O dear- 
won Kinsman. GOD! 

The Word of God came unto me ; 

The One of whom I am a part 

Spoke in my brain and life and heart. 
If I heard right, nor spoiled Love's tone 
With word or message of my own — 

The God that used my arm and pen 
Will, when His instrument is dust. 
Preserve the wording of my trust, 

And through it I shall live again. 

To Love be praise and power — Amen. 



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